PiC

Last update 29 July 2026

Copyright license GNU General Public License

Software version identifier PACKAGES.rds, 1.0.3, 1.2.6, 1.2.7, 3.3.1, 3.3, 3.3.3

Description

Tools for the processing, segmentation, and analysis of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS and MLS) forest point-cloud data. The package provides fast voxel-based processing, classification of point clouds into forest floor, understory, canopy, and woody components, and algorithms for single-tree analysis and structural characterization. Methods are designed to handle large and dense point-cloud datasets efficiently, supporting applications in forest structure assessment, connectivity analysis, and fire-risk evaluation. Input data are provided as '.xyz', '.txt', '.las', or '.laz' point-cloud files. The circle-fitting routines used for diameter estimation are adapted, in base R, from the 'conicfit' package (GPL-3) by Jose Gama, based on the original algorithms and code by Nikolai Chernov. For methodological details, see Ferrara and Arrizza (2025) <https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14243/533471> and Ferrara et al. (2018) <doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.04.008>.

Cites work

An automated approach for wood-leaf separation from terrestrial LIDAR point clouds using the density based clustering algorithm DBSCAN

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