Tree segmentation in airborne laser scanning data is only accurate for canopy trees
Cao, Y.; Ball, J. G. C.; Coomes, D. A.; Steinmeier, L.; Knapp, N.; Wilkes, P.; Disney, M.; Calders, K.; Burt, A.; Lin, Y.; Jackson, T. D.
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Individual tree segmentation from airborne laser scanning data is a longstanding and important challenge in forest remote sensing. There are a number of segmentation algorithms but robust intercomparison studies are rare due to the difficulty of obtaining reliable reference data. Here we provide a benchmark data set for temperate and tropical broadleaf forests generated from labelled terrestrial laser scanning data. We compare the performance of four widely used tree segmentation algorithms against this benchmark data set. All algorithms achieved reasonable accuracy for the canopy trees, but very low accuracy for the understory trees. The point cloud based algorithm AMS3D (Adaptive Mean Shift 3D) had the highest overall accuracy, closely followed by the 2D raster based region growing algorithm Dalponte2016+. This result was consistent across both forest types. This study emphasises the need to assess tree segmentation algorithms directly using benchmark data. We provide the first openly available benchmark data set for tropical forests and we hope future studies will extend this work to other regions.
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