Enhancing LiDAR-Based Forest Analysis: A Successful Field Day in the Spessart

Enhancing LiDAR-Based Forest Analysis: A Successful Field Day in the Spessart

March 12, 2025

Last week, students and scientific staff from the Earth Observation Research Cluster and the Physical Geography took part in an exciting field day in the Spessart (Lower Franconia, Bavaria) to gather additional data for LiDAR-based tree segmentation and forest characterization research. Under perfect weather conditions with bright sunshine, they conducted additional terrestrial laser scans and collected further in-situ data for ground-truthing. The additional measurements will help refine our segmentation methods and provide valuable validation for our models integrating remote sensing data.

This successful field day underscores the importance of combining remote sensing techniques with ground-truthing data to improve forest structure assessments. We look forward to analyzing the collected data and integrating these findings into our ongoing research project EO4CAM.

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