Mapping of tree height is great importance for management, planning, and research related to agroforestry parklands in Africa. In this paper, we investigate the potential spotlight-mode data from interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) satellite system TanDEM-X (TDM) mapping Saponé, Burkina Faso, a test site characterised by low average canopy cover (~15%) mean 9.0 m. Seven TDM acquisi...

A procedure for both vertical canopy structure analysis and 3D single tree extraction based on Lidar raw point cloud is presented in this paper. The whole study area is segmented into small study cells by a raster net. For each cell, a normalized point cloud whose point heights represent the absolute heights of the ground objects is generated from the original Lidar raw point cloud. The main tr...

The evolution of the 4-variate probability distribution of the diameter at the breast height, total height, crown base height, and crown width against the age in a forest stand is of great interest to forest management and the evaluation of forest resources. This paper focuses on the Vasicek type 4-variate fixed effect stochastic differential equation (SDE) to quantify the dynamic of tree size ...

Usually, filtering is performed in order to extract a ground surface from laser points obtained with the airborne laser scanner. It mainly removes the laser points that were measured as trees surface. However, in the dense forest where trees are grown thick, we can see the part of the laser points has not reached to the ground surface. If it conducted the filtering that sorts out the laser poin...