Individual-tree segmentation method of uav lidar point cloud based on canopy morphology

Abstract

Provided is an individual-tree segmentation method of UAV LiDAR point cloud based on canopy morphology. The method uses woodland data obtained by a UAV LiDAR to: extract initial canopies from a CHM based on a region growing algorithm, determine whether each initial canopy is a correct segmentation canopy according to the number of local density maximum points in each initial canopy, finely segment each wrong segmentation canopy according to canopy morphology to obtain an updated set of tree tops, and finally use each of the updated set of tree tops as a seed point for performing the region growing algorithm to thereby obtain a final individual-tree segmentation result. The method make full use of height information and density information contained in a tree point cloud; and under the guidance of the density information, a wrong segmentation tree can be more accurately identified.

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