Ground-based LiDAR also known as terrestrial Laser Scanning (tLS) technology is an active remote sensing imaging method said to be one of the latest advances and innovations for plant phenotyping. Basal Stem Rot (BSR) is the most destructive disease of oil palm in Malaysia that is caused by whiterot fungus Ganoderma boninense, the symptoms of which include flattening and hanging-down of the canopy, shorter leaves, wilting green fronds and smaller crown size. therefore, until now there is no critical investigation on the characterisation of canopy architecture related to this disease using tLS method was carried out. This study proposed a novel technique of BSR classification at the oil palm canopy analysis using the point clouds data taken from the TLS. A total of 40 samples of oil palm trees at the age of nine-years-old were selected and 10 trees for each health level were randomly taken from the same plot. The trees were categorised into four health levels -T0, T1, T2 and T3, which represents the healthy, mildly infected, moderately infected and severely infected, respectively. the tLS scanner was mounted at a height of 1 m and each palm was scanned at four scan positions around the tree to get a full 3D image. Five parameters were analysed: S200 (canopy strata at 200 cm from the top), S850 (canopy strata at 850 cm from the top), crown pixel (number of pixels inside the crown), frond angle (degree of angle between fronds) and frond number. the results taken from statistical analysis revealed that frond number was the best single parameter to detect BSR disease as early as T1. In classification models, a linear model with a combination of parameters, ABD -A (frond number), B (frond angle) and D (S200), delivered the highest average accuracy for classification of healthy-unhealthy trees with an accuracy of 86.67 per cent. It also can classify the four severity levels of infection with an accuracy of 80 per cent. This model performed better when compared to the severity classification using frond number. the novelty of this research is therefore on the development of new approach to detect and classify BSR using point clouds data of tLS.LiDAR (Light detection and ranging) is an active remote sensing technology similar to Radar (Radio detection and ranging) but which uses laser light. LiDAR measures the distance or range to a target by illuminating the target with a pulsed laser light and measuring the reflected pulses with a sensor. It can directly represent external structures and carry out profiling for objects or trees. Laser Scanning (LS) profiling systems consist of a measuring instrument that can measure vertical angles, horizontal angles, and distances with a high standard of accuracy and speed by means of a mobile mirror or prism system allowing the mapping of morphological features of targets 1 .Research and field site works used extensive biometric data in estimating tree properties while offering the possibility of reducing inventory costs. Previous studies have demonstrated that LiDAR could be used to ...

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