LiDAR: princípios e aplicações florestais

Abstract

on trees height and density, besides being fundamental for planning, are hard to obtain by conventional methods. Laser scanning technology, as opposed to satellite images and aerial photographs, can concurrently map the estimates of several other forest variables such as basal area, diameter, volume, biomass and fuel material. Besides these applications, LiDAR technology presents a great potential for planning forest harvesting activities, road and computational applications more robust and reliable for modeling data from this type of sensor.