用激光与神经辐射场融合,精准重建林中幼树三维结构。
Sapling-NeRF: Geo-Localised Sapling Reconstruction in Forests for Ecological Monitoring
- 结合GNSS、LiDAR SLAM和NeRF,实现厘米级定位与个体化重建
- 可准确测量0.5至2米高幼树的茎干骨架与叶分布
- 适用于长期生态监测,提升森林再生评估精度
幼树是森林再生与健康的关键指标,但现有3D传感技术难以捕捉其精细结构,导致定量评估困难。地面激光扫描(TLS)、移动激光扫描(MLS)及传统摄影测量法对细枝、密叶重建效果差,且缺乏长期监测所需的尺度一致性。隐式3D重建方法如神经辐射场(NeRF)和3D高斯泼溅(3DGS)虽具潜力,却无法恢复真实尺度且缺乏精确定位能力。本文提出一种融合NeRF、LiDAR SLAM与GNSS的系统,实现可重复、地理定位的幼树生态监测。该系统采用三级表示:(i) GNSS进行粗略地球坐标定位,(ii) LiDAR SLAM实现厘米级局部定位与重建,(iii) NeRF生成个体化密集重建。在英国牛津韦思汉树林与芬兰埃沃林地的实验表明,相比TLS,茎高、分枝模式与叶木比的测量精度显著提升。本方法可在现场精确获取0.5至2米高幼树的茎干骨架与叶分布,为生态学家提供更丰富的结构与量化数据,支持森林动态分析。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Saplings are key indicators of forest regeneration and overall forest health. However, their fine-scale architectural traits are difficult to capture with existing 3D sensing methods, which make quantitative evaluation difficult. Terrestrial Laser Scanners (TLS), Mobile Laser Scanners (MLS), or traditional photogrammetry approaches poorly reconstruct thin branches, dense foliage, and lack the scale consistency needed for long-term monitoring. Implicit 3D reconstruction methods such as Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) are promising alternatives, but cannot recover the true scale of a scene and lack any means to be accurately geo-localised. In this paper, we present a pipeline which fuses NeRF, LiDAR SLAM, and GNSS to enable repeatable, geo-localised ecological monitoring of saplings. Our system proposes a three-level representation: (i) coarse Earth-frame localisation using GNSS, (ii) LiDAR-based SLAM for centimetre-accurate localisation and reconstruction, and (iii) NeRF-derived object-centric dense reconstruction of individual saplings. This approach enables repeatable quantitative evaluation and long-term monitoring of sapling traits. Our experiments in forest plots in Wytham Woods (Oxford, UK) and Evo (Finland) show that stem height, branching patterns, and leaf-to-wood ratios can be captured with increased accuracy as compared to TLS. We demonstrate that accurate stem skeletons and leaf distributions can be measured for saplings with heights between 0.5m and 2m in situ, giving ecologists access to richer structural and quantitative data for analysing forest dynamics.
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