Canopy Products¶

canopy module. Algorithms for creating canopy metrics

Vertical Foliage Profiles¶

Functions for voxelization of TLS scans (Hancock et al., 2016)

pylidar.toolbox.canopy.voxel_hancock2016.classify_voxels(hits, miss, occl, classification, ground=None)[source]¶

Classification of voxels

Class Value Hits Misses Occluded Observed 5 >0 >=0 >=0 Empty 4 =0 >0 >=0 Hidden 3 =0 =0 >0 Unobserved 2 =0 =0 =0 Ground 1

pylidar.toolbox.canopy.voxel_hancock2016.runVoxelization(data, otherargs)[source]¶: Voxelization function for the lidar processor

pylidar.toolbox.canopy.voxel_hancock2016.run_voxel_hancock2016(infiles, controls, otherargs, outfiles)[source]¶

Main function for VOXEL_HANCOCK2016

The gap fraction of each voxel is the ratio of the number of beams that reach the voxel to the number that could have passed through.