My team is interested in scanning trees and smaller plants as part of analyzing how terrain and plant manipulations affect their growth. Can anybody advise of methods for scanning plants in such way as to obtain complete point clouds?
Depending on the measurements, structure from motion photogrammetry can be an accurate and very inexpensive means of getting measures of stem diameter and such. It suffers from problems with occlusion more than laser scanning.
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