Extraction of crown volume using triangulated irregular network algorithm based on LiDAR
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Beijing Forestry University, Research and development center,The First Institute of Photo-grammetry and Remote Sensing,State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping,Beijing Forestry University,Beijing Forestry University,The First Institute of Photo-grammetry and Remote Sensing, State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping,The First Institute of Photo-grammetry and Remote Sensing, State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping

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    To improve the precision and effectiveness of crown-volume measurement and calculation, the authors have analyzed the characteristics of existing methods for processing the point cloud and have proposed a crown-surface reconstruction algorithm using a triangulated irregular network and voxel-based volumetric algorithms. This algorithm, after reconstructing the surface of the point-cloud crown, can extract the crown volume. This paper compares classic Delaunay grid-construction results with those from the proposed algorithm using a visualization method and carries out algorithm complexity analysis. These efforts have confirmed that the method presented in this paper is better than the traditional algorithm from the viewpoints of grid-construction accuracy and efficiency. This research, examined 30 trees in the study area. T-LiDAR was used to obtain point-cloud data for the crown. The classical manual dendrometric method, the point-cloud measurement method, the classical Delaunay algorithm, and the method proposed in this paper were used to calculate crown volume, and the results were compared. The four methods showed a good correlation (R2>=0.831), while the improved Delaunay method presented in this paper achieved good precision, good stability, and the least calculation time. The results of these experiments proved that the proposed algorithm has a considerable advantage in crown-volume extraction from point clouds (especially from T-LiDAR data). The combination of the proposed algorithm with T-LiDAR data could extract crown properties such as surface area and biomass quickly and precisely.

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GONG Yin-Xi, YAN Fei, FENG Zhong-Ke, LIU Yun-Feng, XUE Wen-Xing, XIE Fei. Extraction of crown volume using triangulated irregular network algorithm based on LiDAR[J]. Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves,2016,35(2):177~183

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  • Received:March 12,2015
  • Revised:December 15,2015
  • Adopted:September 23,2015
  • Online: May 11,2016
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