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Use the camera to determine the diameter at breast height and much more.

Forest inventories are time-consuming and labour-intensive. Determine the diameter at breast height of each individual tree with the calipper and determine the position by means of angle counting is only possible in samples of forests. Wouldn't it be much easier to walk through the woods with a camera and let the computer do the rest? Technically, this should be possible. From many camera images from numerous perspectives it is possible to calculate 3D models. Forest parameters from such models can be extracted. In the past, for example, BHDs in forests were determined automatically. We are now looking for further parameters of interest. The inventory of lying and standing dead wood is of particular interest.

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