AMS3D crown segmentation

Delineates tree crowns in drone lidar using adaptive mean-shift clustering.

Field
Forestry & vegetation
Method
Classical method
Data it takes
point-cloud
License
GPL-3.0-or-later — restricted use

AMS3D delineates tree crowns in drone lidar using mean-shift clustering with a bandwidth that adapts to canopy height. It is deterministic and requires no training data.

It operates at crown level, complementing stem-level methods such as 3DFin and FSCT.

The license is GPL-3.0-or-later, a copyleft license.

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