Semi-automatic extraction of liana stems from terrestrial LiDAR point clouds of tropical rainforests.

ABSTRACT: Lianas are key structural elements of tropical forests having a large impact on the global carbon cycle by reducing tree growth and increasing tree mortality. Despite the reported increasing abundance of lianas across neotropics, very few studies have attempted to quantify the impact of lianas on tree and forest structure. Recent advances in high resolution terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) systems have enabled us to quantify the forest structure, in an unprecedented detail. However, the uptake of TLS technology to study lianas has not kept up with the same pace as it has for trees. The slower technological adoption of TLS to study lianas is due to the lack of methods to study these complex growth forms. In this study, we present a semi-automatic method to extract liana woody components fro

SUBMITTER: Krishna Moorthy SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6686632 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature