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article id 24027, category Research note
Julian Frey, Zoe Schindler, Patrick McClatchy, Christopher Morhart, Elena Larysch, Thomas Seifert. (2025). The 3D reconstruction of wood and leaves from terrestrial laser scanning – a case study on PAR measurements below a solitary Malus domestica tree. Silva Fennica vol. 59 no. 1 article id 24027. https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.24027
Keywords: terrestrial laser scanning; leaf geometry; LESS; light modelling; Malus domestica; PAR; structural tree model
Highlights: Direct reconstruction of leaf and wood polygons from terrestrial laser scanning data by open source software; Validation of reconstruction based on in-situ PAR measurements and direct comparison to a turbid voxel approach; High correlations between in situ PAR measurements and RTM simulation (r = 0.92).
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In this paper, we present a new methodology that directly extracts the geometry of woody features (wood and bark) and foliage from 3D data originating from terrestrial laser scans. Our goal was to enhance the precision of radiative transfer models for modelling tree shading by using highly resolved 3D tree models. The approach was tested on a single apple tree (Malus domestica (Suckow) Borkh.) in a peri-urban setting and was validated by utilising an open-source radiative transfer model and comparing the simulation output with in-situ measurements of photosynthetically active radiation (PAR) as well as simulations utilizing turbid voxels of 0.2 m and 1 m edge length. The in-situ measurements of 60 PAR sensors showed a correlation coefficient (r) of 0.92 with the simulated light intensities for the reconstructed polygons which was higher than for the voxel-based approaches (0.2 m:  r = 0.85, 1 m: r = 0.73). We were able to demonstrate that our approach effectively simulates light extinction through the canopy. This innovative method has the potential to easily provide detailed insights into high resolution radiation patterns within forests, which are connected to multiple ecosystem functions like species and habitat diversity.

  • Frey, Chair of Forest Growth and Dendroecology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Tennenbacher Str. 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7895-702X E-mail: julian.frey@wwd.uni-freiburg.de (email)
  • Schindler, Chair of Forest Growth and Dendroecology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Tennenbacher Str. 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2972-1920 E-mail: zoe.schindler@wwd.uni-freiburg.de
  • McClatchy, Chair of Forest Growth and Dendroecology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Tennenbacher Str. 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany E-mail: patrickjmcclatchy@gmail.com
  • Morhart, Chair of Forest Growth and Dendroecology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Tennenbacher Str. 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1874-5011 E-mail: christopher.morhart@wwd.uni-freiburg.de
  • Larysch, Chair of Forest Growth and Dendroecology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Tennenbacher Str. 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1191-5770 E-mail: elena.larysch@wwd.uni-freiburg.de
  • Seifert, Chair of Forest Growth and Dendroecology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Tennenbacher Str. 4, 79106 Freiburg, Germany; Department of Forest and Wood Science, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland, 7602, Stellenbosch, South Africa ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9611-6272 E-mail: thomas.seifert@wwd.uni-freiburg.de

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