FORTLS
Automatic Processing of Terrestrial-Based Technologies Point Cloud Data for Forestry Purposes
Fernando Montes, Juan Alberto Molina-Valero, Adela Martínez-Calvo, Juan Gabriel Álvarez-González, César Pérez-Cruzado, Arunima Singh, Gokul Kottilapurath Surendran
Last update: 21 January 2024
Software version identifier: 1.2.0, 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.1.0, 1.3.0, 1.4.0
Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Process automation of point cloud data derived from terrestrial-based technologies such as Terrestrial Laser Scanner (TLS) or Mobile Laser Scanner. 'FORTLS' enables (i) detection of trees and estimation of tree-level attributes (e.g. diameters and heights), (ii) estimation of stand-level variables (e.g. density, basal area, mean and dominant height), (iii) computation of metrics related to important forest attributes estimated in Forest Inventories at stand-level, and (iv) optimization of plot design for combining TLS data and field measured data. Documentation about 'FORTLS' is described in Molina-Valero et al. (2022, <doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105337>).
