forestutils 0.1.0

Tools to analyse 3D scans of a forest.

3D-tools is a set of tools for analysing pointclouds of a forest.

forestutils.py is the main interface, with the other files providing functionality that may be indepedently useful.

Features:

• Detect, map, and extract trees from the full pointcloud

• Calculate location, height, canopy area, and colour of each tree

• Losslessly reduce pointcloud size by discarding ground points

It is written in pure Python (3.4+), available under the GPL3 license, and can analyse multi-gigabyte datasets in surprisingly little memory.

Useful links:

• documentation

• processed pointclouds

• maps (from output)

• source code

Contact: zac.hatfield.dodds at gmail.com