Antero Kukko

TL;DR: In this article, the advances of applying terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) in forest inventories, discusses its properties with reference to other related techniques and discusses the future prospects of this technique.

TL;DR: The accuracy of tree height, after removing gross errors, was better than 0.5 m in all tree height classes with the best methods investigated in this experiment, suggesting minimum curvature-based tree detection accompanied by point cloud-based cluster detection for suppressed trees is a solution that deserves attention in the future.

TL;DR: The review shows that most previous studies have concentrated on the mapping and analysis of network components, and more attention should be given to an integrated use of various data sources to benefit from the various techniques in an optimal way.

TL;DR: A novel low-cost mini-UAV-based laser scanning system capable of not only recording point cloud data giving the geometry of the objects, but also simultaneously collecting image data, including overlapping images and the intensity of laser backscatter, as well as hyperspectral and thermal data is presented.

TL;DR: An automatic method was developed for the extraction of pole-like objects from VLS data that was able to find 77.7% of the poles which were found by a manual investigation of the data.