I saw this in the LiDAR Forum this morning and thought some of you would be interested in this work with LiDAR data acquired during leaf off conditions.
“Goal:
This project will extract relevant metrics from two sets of leaf-off and leaf-on LiDAR to make an accurate and unbiased estimation of canopy density in tree, shrub and herbal layers within the Bavarian Forest National Park. LAStools
will be used to initially process the raw point cloud data and create DTMs, DSMs and CHMs and to derive LiDAR metrics from normalized LiDAR points over the entire area of the National Park. Performing these LiDAR processing steps over the extend of the entire
National Park is computationally intense. “
http://rapidlasso.com/2015/08/20/lasmoons-bastian-schumann/
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