Kim Calders

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed an approach to estimate AGB from TLS data, which does not need any prior information about allometry and does not rely on indirect relationships with tree parameters or calibration data.

TL;DR: An open source tool, capable of modelling highly accurate cylindrical tree models from terrestrial laser scan point clouds, is presented and evaluated and a global statistical improvement of derived cylinder radii is presented as well as an efficient optimization approach to automatically improve user given input parameters.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review their experience of TLS sampling strategies from 27 campaigns conducted over the past 5 years, across tropical and temperate forest plots, where data was captured with a RIEGL VZ-400 laser scanner.

TL;DR: In this paper, a hand-held mobile laser scanner (HMLS) was compared with two TLS approaches (single scan: SS, and multi scan: MS) for the estimation of several forest parameters in a wide range of forest types and structures.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an interdisciplinary focus to explore current developments in terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) to measure and monitor forest structure, and argue that TLS data will play a critical role in understanding fundamental ecological questions about tree size and shape, allometric scaling, metabolic function and plasticity of form.