Tree Tools is a computer program designed to work alongside our automated classification tools. It helps you analyze aerial lidar data by extracting information about forests and individual trees.
In forest research, lidar data obtained from airborne laser scanning is widely used. The high-density lidar point cloud allows us to measure both overall forest characteristics and specific details about individual trees.
How do we use it?
To use Tree Tools, you input point cloud data from a LAZ file captured by an airborne lidar system. The software then helps you extract forest metrics by sorting the point cloud into ground and vegetation points. Additionally, it assists in extracting individual tree attributes by identifying and separating vegetation points into individual trees.
The required inputs are the raw point cloud and a georeferenced coordinate system. The software produces various outputs, including XYZ points of tree tops in CSV and ESRI Shape file formats, polygons representing crown diameter and area in ESRI Shape files, random tree coloring in the point cloud, tree height information, and raster files of the Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and Digital Surface Model (DSM).