Point clouds and QSM for 598 individually scanned tree branches to support "Terrestrial laser scanning to reconstruct branch architecture from harvested branches"

A collection of 598 harvested branches scanned in high resolution using terrestrial LiDAR. Branches were collected from GEM forest plots in Malaysia, Australia and Brazil.

Branch nomenclature is PLOT-TREE-BN<S or SH> where PLOT codes can be found in the manuscript, N refers to the sample number of branch harvested from a tree, and S and SH refer to sun or shade branch respectivetly.

For each branch there are 3 files:  

• Unfiltered point clouds (raw_pc) are clipped from the original data only and have had no post processing applied
• Filtered point clouds (filtered_pc) have been filtered according to the steps in the manuscript
• QSMs were produced using treegraph (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5226212)

Polygon File Format (.ply) files can be viewed in software such as CloudCompare.

Full details of methods can be found in: Wilkes, P., Shenkin, A., Disney, M., Malhi, Y., Bentley, L. P., & Vicari, M. B. (2021). Terrestrial laser scanning to reconstruct branch architecture from harvested branches. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12, 2487–2500. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13709