Articles | Volume 12, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1629-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-1629-2015
Technical note
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12 Mar 2015
Technical note |  | 12 Mar 2015

Technical Note: Multispectral lidar time series of pine canopy chlorophyll content

T. Hakala, O. Nevalainen, S. Kaasalainen, and R. Mäkipää

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (16 Feb 2015) by Alasdair MacArthur
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A hyperspectral lidar produces point clouds with multiple spectral channels (colours) for each point. We measured a pine and used the spectral content to estimate chlorophyll content. We validated these results using chemical laboratory analysis of needles taken from the pine. Our prototype has limitations, but still shows the great potential of coloured point clouds. Potential applications include forestry, security, archaeology and city modelling.
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