NDLI: A Comparison of the Performances of Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle (UAV) and Terrestrial Laser Scanning for Forest Plot Canopy Cover Estimation in Pinus massoniana Forests

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A Comparison of the Performances of Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle (UAV) and Terrestrial Laser Scanning for Forest Plot Canopy Cover Estimation in Pinus massoniana Forests

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Author	Dai, Wenxia Guan, Qingfeng Cai, Shangshu Liu, Rundong Chen, Ruibo Liu, Qing Chen, Chao Dong, Zhen
Copyright Year	2022
Abstract	Canopy cover is an important indicator and commonly used in forest management applications. Unmanned-Aerial-Vehicle (UAV)—Borne Laser Scanning (ULS) has drawn increasing attention as a new alternative source for forest field inventory due to its spatial resolution comparable to that of Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS). In this study, the performance of plot canopy cover estimations from ULS and TLS is investigated. The experiment was conducted in 16 plots from two Pinus massoniana forests with different stand conditions in Guangxi, China. Both the Canopy Height Model (CHM)-based and Individual Tree Delineation (ITD)-based methods were used to estimate the canopy cover. The influence of CHM pixel sizes on the estimations was also analyzed. Our results demonstrated that the accuracies of ULS ( $R^{2}$ : 0.992–0.996, $R M S E$ : 0.591–0.820%) were better than those of TLS ( $R^{2}$ : 0.541–0.846, $R M S E$ : 3.642–6.297%) when compared against the reference. The average difference between the ULS and TLS estimations was 6.91%, and the disagreement increased as the forest complexity increased. The reasonable CHM pixel sizes for the canopy cover estimations were 0.07–1.2 m for ULS and 0.07–1.5 m for TLS. This study can provide useful information for the selection of data sources and estimation methods in plot canopy cover mapping.
Starting Page	1188
e-ISSN	20724292
DOI	10.3390/rs14051188
Journal	Remote Sensing
Issue Number	5
Volume Number	14
Language	English
Publisher	MDPI
Publisher Date	2022-02-28
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Remote Sensing Forest Point Cloud Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (uav) Terrestrial Laser Scanning (tls) Canopy Cover
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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