We proudly present

3D FOREST


Tool for point cloud data processing from forest environment acquired by terrestrial laser scanner.

Welcome!

Looking for software tool to analyse your TLS data? You just find one! We are glad to present you open-source software application for lidar data segmentation, visualization, measurement and export of various tree parameters. Let’s start with image gallery and enjoy insight into old-growth forest where this application serve for studying forest structure and dynamic in 3D space. Feel free to download and test it from download page and leave comment or sugestion at our forum. We are using also ticket system for improvements and bug report.

Our story

The 3D Forest Project started in year 2010 at Department of Forest Ecology of The Silva Tarouca Research Institute. In cooperation with Department of Geoinformation Technologies of Mendel University in Brno. Increasing need for analyzing real three-dimensional data from forest environment was apparent and widely acknowledged across numerous research questions in forestry and forest ecology. After extensive search for the best possible approach for acquiring and processing 3D data we found terrestrial laser scanning as the best data for our needs. The only missing piece was the powerful but user friendly processing tool, so we decided to create one by ourself – the 3D Forest.

News

2022/01/30

new version 0.52 with incorporated methods for charcoal sites analysis is right now out for your point cloud data workflow. youcan download new version from Download section of on this link: https://github.com/VUKOZ-OEL/3DForest/releases/download/v052/3DForest_052.exe

2020/12/17

3D Forest v. 0.51 has been released! Version 0.51 brings new tools for terrain analysis and classification of terrain features directly from the terrain pointcloud. It also brings new descriptions of existing tools, more intuitive dialog windows and much more… Enjoy it!

2020/10/14

We are happy to announce that we just published a new paper about processing utra-high-density drone lidar data for area-wide mapping of individual trees using 3D Forest. The paper received publicity also on ForestGEO’s Twitter and Facebook pages.

2020/09/16

We have updated the Wiki User’s Guide. We believe that the new user manual better describes the functionality of 3D Forest and will be useful for all and especially for new users of the 3D Forest. At the same time we are working on updates of some 3D Forest dialog windows to be more intuitive. It will be part of the 0.51 release. Comming soon!

2019/11/29

The article introducing 3D Forest (Trochta et al. 2017) is among the top 10% most cited PLOS ONE papers published in 2017! Thank you for your interest!!

Why choose us?

Our application is free for all users. Thanks to licence GPL v3 we can publish our work with garanty that user will never pay for this piece of code.

During our mission we have collected a big amount of data from forest environment. Our datasets has area at least 1 ha on more than 5 plots. If you are intersted in cooperation feel free to contact us.

3D FOREST

GALLERY


Explore possibilities of our application on following pictures.

 

GUI of 3D Forest

competition for light in 3D

scannig on the edge

From the pointcloud ...

... through processing ...

... to measure individual trees

two tree species in scan

20x20 m sample of Žofín forest plot

colonization of canopy gap

Velká Pleš site

DBH and tree heights

planar projections of trees

From the pointcloud ...

... through segmentation ...

... to measure individuals

bae cloud

separation of terrain and vegetation

individual trees after automatic segmentation

automatic measurements with instant visualisation

QSM of trees (yelow cilinders)

workflow of tree segmentation and parameter estimation

from pointcloud through QSM to wood quality assortment

tree measurements ...

DBH and tree heights

concave hulls of trees

planar projections of trees

Planar projections of 1 ha plot

Velká Pleš site

TLS of 10 ha oak woodland

Airborne and terestrial scans

Ranšpurk site with segmented trees with DBh greater than 1 cm

Example of crown hull created by sections

Convex hulls of crown on Ranšpurk site

Žofín forest site sample with trees automatically segmented

Žofín forest site sample with trees in concave hull

Žofín forest site sample with trees in convex hull

top view to the concave hulls on Ranšpurk

Top view on convex hull

Žofín forest site sample with in convex hull of crowns

Žofín forest site sample with convex hull of crowns

Convex hull of crowns with planar projection - space occupation

Jan scanning Wind River

scannig on the edge

Ranšpurk data collection

Boubín forest after disturbance

Kamil operating scanner on Velká Pleš site

Boubin forest in spring campaign

Jan and Dušan scanning on Velká Pleš site

In field we work (Žofín site)

Žofín site

INTERESTED?

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3D Forest application


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3D Forest

TEAM

Meat our team who resposible for the code.


Kamil Král

Senior researcher at VUKOZ research institute, Department of Forest Ecology. Main interests: Remote sensing, Forest dynamics, development stages and patch mosaic of old-growth forest

Martin Krůček

Ph.D. student at VUKOZ research institute, Department of Forest Ecology. Student of Applied geoinformatics, Mendel University Brno Main interests: Crown modelling, light propagation, UAV data processing

Jan Trochta

Former Ph.D. student at VUKOZ research institute, Department of Forest Ecology. Student of Applied geoinformatics, Mendel University Brno Main interests: remote sensing, old growth forest dynamics, programing, forest ecology.

3D Forest

CONTACT


If you have any question, please contact us on forum or by e-mail.