Linking aerial and ground-based laser scanning

Linking aerial and ground-based laser scanning

Friday 13 Apr 2012

Treemetrics, a leading forestry analytics company based in Ireland, announced a first in forestry technology at the AUSTimber 2012 conference in Mt Gambier, the first company in the world, to combine both Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) and Aerial Laser Scanning (ALS) to be used operationally. The company has now worked in 14 different countries and has more recently being working with Forestry SA.

This first to market technology, combines Terrestrial Laser Scanning forestry analytics, developed by Treemetrics, with existing Aerial Laser Scanning technologies. Aerial Laser Scanning data provides information to describe the quantity, and height, of trees in the forest. Combining the Terrestrial Laser Scanning, with the Aerial Laser Scanning, not only provides superior calibration data, but also stem quality data. 3-D stem profiles can automatically be extracted from 3-D images collected in the forest.

Use of intelligent data, real-time analytics and a simple-to-use web platform for harvest planning, are at the core of TreeMetrics development. This according to the company is providing significant improvements in efficiency, cost savings and greater value recovery; more than 10% are being provided to forest owners and harvesting companies.

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