Trees are thought to have acquired a mechanically optimized shape through evolution, but a scientific methodology to investigate the mechanical rationality of tree morphology remains to be established ...

Lidar, as a new technology of active optical remote sensing detection, has developed rapidly due to its advantages in profile detection with high temporal and spatial resolutions. It has been used for ...

Existing algorithms can partially reconstruct the shape of a single tree from a clean point-cloud dataset acquired by laser-scanning technologies. Doing the same with forest data has proven far more ...