Approach for modeling single branches of meadow orchard trees with 3D point clouds

04/12/2021

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by   Jonas Straub, et al.

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The cultivation of orchard meadows provides an ecological benefit for biodiversity, which is significantly higher than in intensively cultivated orchards. The goal of this research is to create a tree model to automatically determine possible pruning points for stand-alone trees within meadows. The algorithm which is presented here is capable of building a skeleton model based on a pre-segmented photogrammetric 3D point cloud. Good results were achieved in assigning the points to their leading branches and building a virtual tree model, reaching an overall accuracy of 95.19 necessary information about the geometry of the tree for automated pruning.