Spring is coming - let's get scanning

Yesterday Mark and Fadal were back at Silverdale in Lancashire, scanning three oak trees in leaf-off state. These trees feature in our recent paper "Spectral and spatial information from a novel dual-wavelength full-waveform terrestrial laser scanner for forest ecology" publish in Interface Focus and available here:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francis_Danson

 

The leaf-on data were collected around 18 months ago and in the paper we compare spectral classification using the SALCA Normalised Difference Index (NDI) with spatial classification using Canupo in CloudCompare

 

The new data will allow us to explore further the application of SALCA for leaf and wood classification.

The three oaks in different health conditions

Scanning the 'moderate' condition oak tree

The terrestrial laser scanning revolution in forest ecology...now out!

Our special issue of Interface Focus from the The Royal Society is now published! The issue "The terrestrial laser scanning revolution in forest ecology" features 11 papers from some of the world's leading experts on TLS. Read The Royal Society Blog here:
https://blogs.royalsociety.org/publishing/laser-scanning-revolution/

The contents page is here:
http://rsfs.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/8/2

Mark, Lucy and Fadal have published the latest SALCA paper in the issue and it can be downloaded here:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francis_Danson