Lidar use in Arboriculture.

[colemanjessenz]

I’ve been a bit slack here recently but we’ve been quite busy. I have seen the Gree hill stuff. I’ve been in talks with a few sources in Europe about similar setups. The initial setup cost of scanning a city is quite expensive but as time goes by it should be more and more obtainable. We’ve been busy testing the accuracy of our unit and it’s been incredible what has come out of it.

 

[27RMT0N]

Wow, what a cool image, and source of a lot of useful information.

 

[colemanjessenz]

Wow, what a cool image, and source of a lot of useful information.

The cool thing about it is that generating these reports is now partially automated. Once the point cloud processing has been done we can export individual tree information into this format.
Having these available, bridges the gap between modern tech deliverables and traditional excel and pdf formats. It’s something that will be really useful for planning and surveying.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Can the species of the trees be found using LiDAR?

If so, can it be done automatically so that inventories be done

 

[colemanjessenz]

Can the species of the trees be found using LiDAR?

If so, can it be done automatically so that inventories be done

No, it still requires an arborist for tree identification in this case Tom
There are ways of automating species detection using imagery but this requires a huge amount of time to train models (we are doing this but only for a few common re veg species) it’ll get there eventually, all you have to do is look at id apps to see how quickly technology progresses. It’s just time and resources to train these models.

The lidar point cloud itself isn’t normally colourised it’s using a separate camera to get the colours.

 

[Tom Dunlap]

Amazing