Filtering Stems and Branches from Terrestrial Laser Scanning Point Clouds Using Deep 3-D Fully Convolutional Networks

被引:47
作者
Xi, Zhouxin [1 ]
Hopkinson, Chris [1 ]
Chasmer, Laura [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Lethbridge, Dept Geog, Lethbridge, AB T1K 3M4, Canada
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
关键词
TLS; QSM; CNN; FCN; deep learning; 3-D point clouds; forest; segmentation; tree structure; MODERATE RESOLUTION; NORWAY SPRUCE; TREE MODELS; BIOMASS; ATTRIBUTES; FORESTS; WOOD;
D O I
10.3390/rs10081215
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) can produce precise and detailed point clouds of forest environment, thus enabling quantitative structure modeling (QSM) for accurate tree morphology and wood volume allocation. Applying QSM to plot-scale wood delineation is highly dependent on wood visibility from forest scans. A common problem is to filter wood point from noisy leafy points in the crowns and understory. This study proposed a deep 3-D fully convolution network (FCN) to filter both stem and branch points from complex plot scans. To train the 3-D FCN, reference stem and branch points were delineated semi-automatically for 14 sampled areas and three common species. Among seven testing areas, agreements between reference and model prediction, measured by intersection over union (IoU) and overall accuracy (OA), were 0.89 (stem IoU), 0.54 (branch IoU), 0.79 (mean IoU), and 0.94 (OA). Wood filtering results were further incorporated to a plot-scale QSM to extract individual tree forms, isolated wood, and understory wood from three plot scans with visual assessment. The wood filtering experiment provides evidence that deep learning is a powerful tool in 3-D point cloud processing and parsing.
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