TY - JOUR
T1 - Mechatronic terrestrial LiDAR for canopy porosity and crown surface estimation
AU - Pfeiffer, Sebastián Arriagada
AU - Guevara, Javier
AU - Auat Cheein, Fernando
AU - Sanz, Ricardo
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank DGIP , the BASAL project FB0008 , CONICYT FONDECYT grant 1171431 , and the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria for their support.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2018/3
Y1 - 2018/3
N2 - The geometric characterization of tree crops is a necessary task to obtain simple though valuable variables such as height and width of tree tops and more complex variables such as porosity and tree top surface, in which this paper focuses. To obtain these variables, a ground-based mechatronic LiDAR system and a multi-size voxels algorithm have been developed. We test the LIDAR system and our algorithms for two cases: a single tree case and a multi-tree case. In the latter, we apply our algorithms in a tree row from an avocado grove in Chile, showing that our system is portable, accurate and can offer the farmer a useful tool for crop monitoring. In addition, we compare our approach with others previously published, showing that our system is more efficient when estimating porosity and crown surface, and offers more capabilities for the decision making process in agricultural activities.
AB - The geometric characterization of tree crops is a necessary task to obtain simple though valuable variables such as height and width of tree tops and more complex variables such as porosity and tree top surface, in which this paper focuses. To obtain these variables, a ground-based mechatronic LiDAR system and a multi-size voxels algorithm have been developed. We test the LIDAR system and our algorithms for two cases: a single tree case and a multi-tree case. In the latter, we apply our algorithms in a tree row from an avocado grove in Chile, showing that our system is portable, accurate and can offer the farmer a useful tool for crop monitoring. In addition, we compare our approach with others previously published, showing that our system is more efficient when estimating porosity and crown surface, and offers more capabilities for the decision making process in agricultural activities.
KW - Canopy estimation
KW - Crown porosity
KW - Mechatronic LiDAR
KW - Terrestrial LiDAR
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85041531048&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.compag.2018.01.022
DO - 10.1016/j.compag.2018.01.022
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041531048
SN - 0168-1699
VL - 146
SP - 104
EP - 113
JO - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
JF - Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
ER -
