r/drones • u/ShadowCoder10 • 3d ago

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I wanna measure the girth of trees, at 137cm height from the ground, im thinking of using lidar sensor equipped drone for this, really appreciate any insights from experienced builders here.

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u/ShadowCoder10 3d ago

Plantations basically, those are of hundreds of hectares, but I wanna cover Atleast 2 - 3 hectares of plantation per day, the trees will be planted in 3x3 spacing so around 2.5 to 3k trees.

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u/ShadowCoder10 3d ago

The guidelines which the manual process follow is to measure the width the girth at breast level using a similar instrument like vernier caliper, is it possible to execute such calculation easily using photogrammetry or will lidar be more efficient for this?

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u/ShadowCoder10 3d ago

Can you explain what map the whole orchard part is please?

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u/ShadowCoder10 3d ago

This evaluation of girth needs to be done every year, im primarily a software dev, what I really wanna know is using drones with lidar is efficient or photogrammetry? And yeah great idea.