Topology-based individual tree segmentation for automated processing of terrestrial laser scanning point clouds

Xin Xu, Federico Iuricich, Kim Calders, John Armston, Leila De Floriani

Abstract: Highlights•A new automated topology-based approach for individual tree isolation on point clouds.•Extensive experimental evaluation performed on labeled data with ground truth results.•Proven robustness of the proposed method over the different forest and point features.