Evaluation of automated pipelines for tree and plot metric estimation from TLS data in tropical forest areas.
Olivier Martin-DucupGislain MofackDi WangPasi RaumonenPierre PlotonBonaventure SonkéNicolas BarbierPierre CouteronRaphaël PélissierPublished in: Annals of botany (2021)
Our results suggest that in complex tropical forests, fully automated pipelines may provide relatively unreliable metrics at the tree and plot levels, but limited human assistance inputs can significantly reduce errors.