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.
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.
Kellner, J. R., Armston, J., Birrer, M., Cushman, K. C., Duncanson, L., Eck, C., … & Trochta, J. (2019). New opportunities for forest remote sensing through ultra-high-density drone lidar. Surveys in Geophysics, 1-19.
Liang, Xinlian, et al. “International benchmarking of terrestrial laser scanning approaches for forest inventories.” ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing 144 (2018): 137-179.
Krůček, M., Trochta, J., Cibulka, M., & Král, K. (2019). Beyond the cones: How crown shape plasticity alters aboveground competition for space and light—Evidence from terrestrial laser scanning. Agricultural and forest meteorology, 264, 188-199.
Trochta J, Krůček M, Vrška T, Král K (2017) 3D Forest: An application for descriptions of three-dimensional forest structures using terrestrial LiDAR. PLoS ONE 12(5): e0176871. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176871
Browse throughout user guide to this application and finds all details. All steps are described in our wiki page.
If you do not have your own data, you can try our dataset. Here you can donwload our testing plot (20 x 40 m) consisting of 26 trees with terrain, deadwoods, etc.
Download and improve our source code to fit your needs.
Download version 0.52 the latest version with incorporated methods for charcoal sites analysis.