A comprehensive review on tree detection methods using point cloud and aerial imagery from unmanned aerial vehicles

W Kuang, HW Ho, Y Zhou, SA Suandi… - Computers and Electronics …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been widely used in agriculture and forest
management with high cost-effectiveness. While numerous reviews have explored UAVs in …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of Pine Tree Crown Delineation Algorithms on UAV Data: From K-Means Clustering to CNN Segmentation

A Hosingholizade, Y Erfanifard, SK Alavipanah… - Forests, 2025 - mdpi.com
The crown area is a critical metric for evaluating tree growth and supporting various
ecological and forestry analyses. This study compares three approaches, ie, unsupervised …

Enhancing sustainable Chinese cabbage production: a comparative analysis of multispectral image instance segmentation techniques

X Yuan, H Yu, T Geng, R Ma, P Li - Frontiers in Sustainable Food …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Accurate instance segmentation of individual crops is crucial for field management and crop
monitoring in smart agriculture. To address the limitations of traditional remote sensing …

Extracting Individual Tree Positions in Closed-Canopy Stands Using a Multi-Source Local Maxima Method

G Lai, M Cao, C Zhou, L Liu, X Zhong, Z Guo… - Forests, 2025 - mdpi.com
The accurate extraction of individual tree positions is key to forest structure quantification,
and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) visible light data have become the primary data source …

Digital forest inventory based on UAV imagery

S Dietenberger, MM Mueller, M Adam… - IGARSS 2024-2024 …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This study explores the application of unoccupied aerial vehicles (UAVs) and structure from
motion (SfM) techniques for digital forest inventories, addressing key challenges in …

[PDF][PDF] Overcoming Seasonal Hurdles: Estimating Leaf-on Digital Surface Model from Late Fall LiDAR Data for Enhanced Forest Tree Height Information

M Bilguunmaa, K Takahashi - aars-ajg.org
ABSTRACT A canopy height model (CHM) is crucial for effective forest resource
assessment, which requires accurate digital surface models (DSMs) during leaf-on periods …