• Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves
  • Vol. 35, Issue 2, 177 (2016)
GONG Yin-Xi1、2、*, YAN Fei1, FENG Zhong-Ke1, LIU Yun-Feng2, XUE Wen-Xing2, and XIE Fei3
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  • 2[in Chinese]
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    DOI: 10.11972/j.issn.1001-9014.2016.02.010 Cite this Article
    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 Copy Citation Text show less

    Abstract

    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.
    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
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