Logging trail detection using deep learning and lidar
Introduction
- The importance of logging trails in forest operations for accurate navigation of vehicles
- Challenges in spotting the location of logging trails for forest owners/ drivers
- Lack of knowledge about the feasibility of LiDAR for detection logging trails
Objectives
- To develop an end to end deep learning based approach that uses high density laser scanning data to automate the detection of logging trails
- To evaluate the performance of U Net using derivatives of laser scanning datasets (i.e., canopy height and elevation based models) for the detection of logging trails
- To investigate the performance of the U Net to detect logging trails in young and mature stands with different development classes