The article talks about the use of terrestrial laser scanners, particularly LiDAR sensors, in ecological data acquisition. These scanners have been used to reconstruct the 3D structure of vegetation and infer ecosystem characteristics based on the spatial variation of the density of points. The research also talks about the development of a low-cost TLS, modified for vertical plane observations and integrated with motion and location sensors for automatic error correction and georeferencing. The data generated from this was used to create histograms of point density variation along the vegetation height, enabling the calculation of metrics of structural complexity of vegetation.
Publication date: 12 Jan 2024
Project Page: Not provided
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.05891
