Can a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) and Multispectral Sensor Discriminate Canopy Structure Changes Due to Pruning in Olive Growing? A Field Experimentation
Carolina Perna, Andrea Pagliai, Daniele Sarri, Riccardo Lisci, Marco Vieri, Jiangtao Qi, Gang Wang · 2024
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Perna and co-authors tested, in a 2024 field study, whether tractor-mounted sensors can see olive canopies change after pruning. Ten trees in a Tuscan grove were scanned before and after cutting, with a multispectral sensor and a two-dimensional laser scanner riding the vehicle.
The light-based sensor barely noticed the pruning: leaf color signals stayed flat despite real losses of wood and leaf. The laser, by contrast, rebuilt each canopy's volume, height, and width from its point cloud, and those measures could be checked against hand measures and the weight of cut branches. Laser scanning thus gives growers an objective way to log pruning work and tree shape. Paired sensors, the study suggests, are not equal witnesses.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Carolina Perna, Andrea Pagliai, Daniele Sarri, Riccardo Lisci, Marco Vieri, Jiangtao Qi, Gang Wang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 66 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |