Review on Individual Tree Detection Based on Airborne LiDAR

Huiling, 刘会玲 Liu; Xiaoli, 张晓丽 Zhang; Ying, 张莹 Zhang; Yunfeng, 朱云峰 Zhu; Hui, 刘辉 Liu; Longyang, 王龙阳 Wang

doi:10.3788/lop55.082805

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“…The trees extracted by the proposed algorithm were considered as the detected data, while the manually extracted individual trees from the point clouds were taken as the reference data. The accuracy of individual tree segmentation was evaluated in terms of the accuracy rate (AR), commission error (CE) and omission error (OE) using Equations ( 9)- (11). Trees that have an intersection of union (IoU) with the reference trees exceeding 50% are regarded as correctly segmented trees (C) (Equation ( 12)) [48,49].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…by satellite or aerial photography, and these images are interpreted to extract information about individual trees [10]. This method can effectively provide forest information over large areas, but two-dimensional (2D) images lack information from below the canopy and hence fail to fully exhibit the three-dimensional (3D) structural features of forests [11,12]. Close-range photogrammetry based on structure from motion algorithms (SFM) can be used to produce a 3D forest model using photographic information and generate a large number of point clouds [13].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Individual Tree Segmentation Based on Seed Points Detected by an Adaptive Crown Shaped Algorithm Using UAV-LiDAR Data

Yu,

Lei,

2024

Remote Sensing

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Unmanned aerial vehicle–light detection and ranging (UAV-LiDAR) provides a convenient and economical means of forest data acquisition that can penetrate canopy gaps to obtain abundant ground information, offering huge potential in forest inventory. Individual tree segmentation is a prerequisite to obtain individual tree details but is highly dependent on the accuracy of seed point detection. However, most of the existing methods, such as the local maximum (LM) and CHM-based methods, are strongly dependent on the window size, and, for individual tree segmentation, they can result in over-segmentation and under-segmentation, especially in natural forests. In this paper, we propose an adaptive crown shaped algorithm for individual tree segmentation without consideration of the window size. It was implemented in four plots with different forest types and topographies (i.e., planted coniferous forest with flat terrain, coniferous forest with sloping terrain, mixed forest with flat terrain and broadleaf forest with flat terrain). First, the normalized point clouds were rotated and blocked at multiple angles to extract the surface points of the forest. Then, the crown boundaries were delineated by analyzing the crown profiles to extract the treetops as seed points. Finally, a region growing method based on seed points was applied for individual tree segmentation. Our results showed that the recall, precision and F1-score of seed point detection reached 91.6%, 95.9% and 0.94, respectively, and that the accuracy rates for individual tree segmentation for the four plots were 87.7%, 80.6%, 73.2% and 70.5%, respectively. Our proposed method can effectively detect seed points via the adaptive crown shaped algorithm and reduce the impacts of elongated branches by applying distance thresholds between trees, enhancing the accuracy of seed point detection and subsequently improving the precision of individual tree segmentation. In addition, the proposed algorithm demonstrated superior performance in comparison to LM and CHM-based methods for the calculation of seed points, as well as outperforming PCS in individual tree segmentation. The proposed method demonstrates effectiveness and feasibility in dense forests and natural forests, providing an important reference for future research on seed point detection and individual tree segmentation.

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Section: Accuracy Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Individual Tree Segmentation Based on Seed Points Detected by an Adaptive Crown Shaped Algorithm Using UAV-LiDAR Data

Yu,

Lei,

2024

Remote Sensing

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“…p reflects the proportion of correct segmentation in the single tree segmented by the algorithm; the closer to 1, the higher the segmentation accuracy. F comprehensively evaluates the quality of segmentation and, the closer to 1, the better the overall effect [35].…”

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An Individual Tree Segmentation Method That Combines LiDAR Data and Spectral Imagery

Chen

Wang

Shi³

et al. 2023

Forests

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The dynamic monitoring of forest resources is an integral component of forest resource management and forest eco-system stability maintenance. In recent years, LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) has been increasingly utilized in precision forest surveys due to its great penetrating ability and capacity to detect forest vertical structure information. However, the present airborne LiDAR data individual tree segmentation algorithms are not highly adaptable to forest types, particularly in mixed coniferous and broad-leaved forest zones, where the accuracy of individual tree extraction is low, and trees are incorrectly recognized and missed. In order to address these issues, in this study, spectral images and LiDAR data of a red pine conifer–broadleaf mixed forest in the Changbai Mountain Nature Reserve in Jilin Province were chosen, and the normalized point cloud was segmented iteratively using the distance-threshold-based individual tree segmentation method to obtain the initial segmented individual tree vertices. For individual trees with deviations in the initial vertex identification position, and unidentified individual trees, identification anchor points of real tree vertices are added within the canopy of the trees. These identification anchor points have strong position directivity in LiDAR data, which can mark the individual trees whose vertices were misidentified or missed during the initial individual tree segmentation process and identify these two tuples. The tree vertices may be inserted precisely based on the 3D shape of the individual tree point cloud, and the seed-point-based individual tree segmentation method is used to segment the normalized point cloud and finish the extraction of individual trees in red pine mixed conifer forests. The results indicate that, compared to the previous individual tree segmentation approach based on the relative spacing between individual trees, this study enhances the accuracy of individual tree segmentation from 83% to 96%. The extremely high segmentation accuracy indicates that the proposed method can accurately identify individual trees based on remote sensing techniques to segment forest individual trees, can provide a data basis for subsequent individual tree information extraction, and has great potential in practical applications.

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“…From the perspective of segmentation strategy, ITS methods can be divided into two categories: bottom-up and top-down [7], and the top-down segmentation strategy is adopted in this paper. As the trunk points of ALS forest point cloud with high canopy density are sparse [8,9], the bottom-up method is seriously affected by noise when selecting seed points, resulting in poor segmentation results.…”

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Towards Intricate Stand Structure: A Novel Individual Tree Segmentation Method for ALS Point Cloud Based on Extreme Offset Deep Learning

Zhang

Liu

et al. 2023

Applied Sciences

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Due to the complex structure of high-canopy-density forests, the traditional individual tree segmentation (ITS) algorithms based on ALS point cloud, which set segmentation threshold manually, is difficult to adequately cover a variety of complex situations, so the ITS accuracy is unsatisfactory. In this paper, a top-down segmentation strategy is adopted to propose an adaptive segmentation method based on extreme offset deep learning, and the ITS set aggregation strategy based on gradient change criterion is designed for the over-segmentation generated by random offset, and the precise ITS is realized. Firstly, the segmentation sub-plot is set as 25 m × 25 m, the regional point cloud and its treetop are marked, and the offset network is trained. Secondly, the extreme offset network is designed to carry out spatial transformation of the original point cloud, and each point is offset to the position near the treetop to obtain the offset point cloud with a high density at the treetop, which enhances the discrimination among individual trees. Thirdly, the self-adaptive mean shift algorithm based on average neighboring distance is designed to divide and mark the offset point cloud. Fourthly, the offset point cloud, after clustering, is mapped back to the original space to complete the preliminary segmentation. Finally, according to the gradient change among different canopies, the ITS aggregation method is designed to aggregate adjacent canopies with a gentle gradient change. In order to investigate the universality of the proposed method on different stand structures, two coniferous forest plots (U1, U2) in the Blue Ridge area of Washington, USA, and two mixed forest plots (G1, G2) in Bretten, Germany, are selected in the experiment. The learning rate of the deep network is set as 0.001, the sampled point number of the sub-plot is 900, the transformer dimension is 512 × 512, the neighboring search number of points is 16, and the number of up-sampling blocks is 3. Experimental results show that in mixed forests (G1, G2) with complex structures, the F-score of the proposed method reaches 0.89, which is about 4% and 7% higher than the classical SHDR and improved DK, respectively. In high-canopy-density areas (U2, G2), the F-score of the proposed method reaches 0.89, which is about 3% and 4% higher than the SHDR and improved DK, respectively. The results show that the proposed method has high universality and accuracy, even in a complex stand environment with high canopy density.

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Review on Individual Tree Detection Based on Airborne LiDAR

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Individual Tree Segmentation Based on Seed Points Detected by an Adaptive Crown Shaped Algorithm Using UAV-LiDAR Data

Individual Tree Segmentation Based on Seed Points Detected by an Adaptive Crown Shaped Algorithm Using UAV-LiDAR Data

An Individual Tree Segmentation Method That Combines LiDAR Data and Spectral Imagery

Towards Intricate Stand Structure: A Novel Individual Tree Segmentation Method for ALS Point Cloud Based on Extreme Offset Deep Learning

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