Robust processing of airborne laser scans to plant area density profiles

Arnqvist, Johan; Freier, Julia; Dellwik, Ebba

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-5939-2020

Articles | Volume 17, issue 23

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-5939-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-5939-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 23

Research article

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02 Dec 2020

Research article |

| 02 Dec 2020

Robust processing of airborne laser scans to plant area density profiles

Johan Arnqvist, Julia Freier, and Ebba Dellwik

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RC1: 'Interesting topic but the finding is debatable', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 May 2020
- AC1: 'Initial response to Referee#1', Johan Arnqvist, 01 Jun 2020
- AC2: 'Response to Referee # 1', Johan Arnqvist, 15 Jul 2020
RC2: 'review of bgd-2020-121', Anonymous Referee #2, 25 Jun 2020
- AC3: 'Response to Referee # 2', Johan Arnqvist, 15 Jul 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (15 Jul 2020) by Paul Stoy

AR by Johan Arnqvist on behalf of the Authors (25 Aug 2020) Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (04 Sep 2020) by Paul Stoy

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (17 Sep 2020)

ED: Publish as is (29 Sep 2020) by Paul Stoy

AR by Johan Arnqvist on behalf of the Authors (05 Oct 2020) Manuscript

Short summary

Data generated by airborne laser scans enable the characterization of surface vegetation for any application that might need it, such as forest management, modeling for numerical weather prediction, or wind energy estimation. In this work we present a new algorithm for calculating the vegetation density using data from airborne laser scans. The new routine is more robust than earlier methods, and an implementation in popular programming languages accompanies the article to support new users.