Generating synthetic laser scanning data of forests by combining forest inventory information, a tree point cloud database and an open-source laser scanning simulator

Airborne laser scanning (ALS) data are routinely used to estimate and map structure-related forest inventory variables. The further development, refinement and evaluation of methods to derive forest inventory variables from ALS data require extensive datasets of forest stand information on an indivi...

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Main Authors: Schäfer, Jannika (Author) , Weiser, Hannah (Author) , Winiwarter, Lukas (Author) , Höfle, Bernhard (Author) , Schmidtlein, Sebastian (Author) , Faßnacht, Fabian Ewald (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: December 2023
In: Forestry
Year: 2023, Volume: 96, Issue: 5, Pages: 653-671
ISSN:1464-3626
DOI:10.1093/forestry/cpad006
Online Access:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpad006
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Author Notes:Jannika Schäfer, Hannah Weiser, Lukas Winiwarter, Bernhard Höfle, Sebastian Schmidtlein and Fabian Ewald Fassnacht

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