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    Prunus avium - Cherry Tree || Two High resolution clouds

This is data firstly published in April 2014.
The two clouds are considered to be of high quality, only minor noise, occlusion and wind occurrence. The tree clouds have been used for development purposes.

Published in

Highly Accurate Tree Models Derived from Terrestrial Laser Scan Data: A Method Description

Research Site

URL Agroforst Breisach
Latitude 48°04'24''N
Longditude 07°35'26''E
a.m.s.l. 182 m

TLS estimated parameters

parameter Prunus avium #1 Prunus avium #2
DBH [cm] 18.2 19.56
length [m] 11.65 12.72
total Volume [dm3] 177.97 220.55
crown projection area Volume [m2] 8.56 11.97
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Point Clouds

Saved in ASC format and can be opened with Cloud Compare.

Cherry #1 point cloud - size ~20mio
Cherry #2 point cloud - size ~20mio


Calculated Models

Produced with SimpleTree in 2015. Saved in PLY format and can be opened with Cloud Compare.

Cherry #2 - Models
Cherry #1 - Models

    Prunus avium - Cherry Tree || 24 clouds

This is data firstly published in April 2014.
Adds 24 more cherry trees from an agro forestry side to the data set. Non-ground truthed. The tree clouds have been used for analysis of cloud to model distance.
The clouds are considered to be of high quality, only minor noise, occlusion and wind occurrence. Clouds do intersect though with each other, manual removal of other crowns suggested.

Published in

Highly Accurate Tree Models Derived from Terrestrial Laser Scan Data: A Method Description

Research Site

URL Agroforst Breisach
Latitude 48°04'24''N
Longditude 07°35'26''E
a.m.s.l. 182 m

Point Clouds

Saved in PCL format pcd and can be opened with SimpleTree. To import the clouds in Cloud Compare.
Open the files in text editor and delete the header.
24 cherry clouds

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