A Handheld Laser-Scanning-Based Methodology for Monitoring Tree Growth in Chestnut Orchards.

Sensors (Basel)

Grupo de Investigación en Geomática e Ingeniería Cartográfica (GEOINCA), Universidad de León, Avenida de Astorga sn, 24401 Ponferrada, Spain.

Published: March 2024

Chestnut and chestnut byproducts are of worldwide interest, so there is a constant need to develop faster and more accurate monitoring techniques. Recent advances in simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithms and user accessibility have led to increased use of handheld mobile laser scanning (HHLS) in precision agriculture. We propose a tree growth monitoring methodology, based on HHLS point cloud processing, that calculates the length of branches through spatial discretization of the point cloud for each tree. The methodology was tested by comparing two point clouds collected almost simultaneously for each of a set of sweet chestnut trees. The results obtained indicated that our HHLS method was reliable and accurate in efficiently monitoring sweet chestnut tree growth. The same methodology was used to calculate the growth of the same set of trees over 37 weeks (from spring to winter). Differences in week 0 and week 37 scans showed an approximate mean growth of 0.22 m, with a standard deviation of around 0.16 m reflecting heterogeneous tree growth.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10975203PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s24061717DOI Listing

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