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Internal Tree Trunk Decay Detection Using Close Range Remote Sensing Data and the PointNet Deep Learning Method

Version 1 : Received: 9 November 2023 / Approved: 10 November 2023 / Online: 10 November 2023 (10:23:21 CET)

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Hrdina, M.; Surový, P. Internal Tree Trunk Decay Detection Using Close-Range Remote Sensing Data and the PointNet Deep Learning Method. Remote Sens. 2023, 15, 5712. Hrdina, M.; Surový, P. Internal Tree Trunk Decay Detection Using Close-Range Remote Sensing Data and the PointNet Deep Learning Method. Remote Sens. 2023, 15, 5712.

Abstract

The health and stability of trees are essential information for the safety of people and property in urban greenery, parks or along roads. The stability of the trees is linked to root stability but essentially also to trunk decay. Currently used internal tree stem decay assessment methods, such as tomography or penetrometry, are reliable but usually time-consuming and unsuitable for large-scale surveys. Therefore, a new method based on close-range remote sensed data, specifically close-range photogrammetry and iPhone LiDAR, was tested to detect decayed standing tree trunks automatically. The proposed study used the PointNet deep learning algorithm for 3D data classification. It was verified in three different datasets consisting of pure coniferous trees, pure deciduous trees or mixed data to eliminate the influence of the detectable symptoms for each group and species itself. The mean achieved validation accuracies of the models were 65.5 % for Coniferous trees, 58.4 % for Deciduous trees and 57.7 % for Mixed data classification. The accuracies indicate promising data, which can be either used by practitioners for preliminary surveys or for other researchers to acquire more input data and create more robust classification models.

Keywords

close-range photogrammetry; mobile laser scanning; deep learning; standing trees; classification; acoustic tomography

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Forestry

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