Terrestrial LiDAR data from the SCATTER project
Creators
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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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University College London
- 3. Ancient Tree Forum
- 4. Arboricultural Association
Description
The Scanning Ancient Trees with Terrestrial LiDAR (SCATTER) project captured ancient oak trees with terrestrial LiDAR across the UK to characterise and compare tree architecture.
SCATTER was funded by the Woodland Trust and led by UCL.
Method
Trees were scanned in between April 2021 and April 2024 at locations across the UK (click on ATI numbers to see location). Scans were acquired with a RIEGL VZ400i terrestrial LiDAR where scan pulse rate was set to 600 KHz and angular resolution set to 0.04 degrees. Between 6 and 12 scan locations were used to capture each tree, depending on tree size and access. Individual scans were then merged and the resulting point cloud subsampled using a voxel size of 0.01 m.
Point clouds are stored in Polygon format and can be viewed in software such as CloudCompare. Each file contains a point cloud with the following fields.
| Field | Property |
| x, y, z | 3D coordinates |
| nx, ny, nz | psuedo-normal that shows direction to scan position |
| reflectance | normalised reflectance values |
| deviation | deviation from |
| sp | scan position number |
| label | 0=surroundings, 1=tree, 2=supports |
Licence and usage
This research was funded by the Woodland Trust Conservation Research Programme. By accessing or using this dataset, you agree to the terms of the relevant licence agreement(s). You will ensure that this dataset is cited in any publication that describes research in which the data have been used.
Additional data sets
Stem videos (10.5281/zenodo.12537511)
Videos of tree stems recoded on a Pixel 7 mobile phone.
Insta360 videos (10.5281/zenodo.12543267 and 10.5281/zenodo.12580682)
Videos in an equirectangular projection recorded with an Insta360 camera.
| Name | Woodland Trust ATI number | Sketchfab link | Stem video | Insta360 | Comments |
| Balmaha Oak | 2021 | Sketchfab | ✓ | repo1 | |
| Band Stand Oak | 10961 | Sketchfab | repo1 | ||
| Belvoir Oak | 302 | Sketchfab | |||
| Birnam Oak | 2422 | Sketchfab | ✓ | repo1 | |
| Bowthorpe Oak | 142 | Sketchfab | ✓ | repo1 | |
| Burnham Beeches Three | 7905, 7906, 7907 | Sketchfab | ✓ | Additional field where trees are labelled 1 (7906), 2 (7907) and 3 (7905) | |
| Burnham Beeches lapsed pollard | 7998 | Sketchfab | |||
| Cadzow Oaks | ✓ | repo1 | 112895 is named Fence, 112896 is Fire and Entrance is not on the ATI database | ||
| Capon Oak | 5320 | Sketchfab | repo1 | ||
| Castle Oak | 9998 | Sketchfab | repo1 | ||
| Cathedral Oak | 420 | ✓ | |||
| Clachan Oak | 2407 | ✓ | repo1 | ||
| Covenanters' Oak | 257 | Sketchfab | ✓ | repo1 | |
| Crockmere Oak | Sketchfab | ✓ | Fell in May 2024 (BBC news article) | ||
| Curley Oak | 14536 | Sketchfab | ✓ | repo1 | |
| Darley Oak | 12217 | Sketchfab | ✓ | repo1 | |
| Domesday Oak | 43692 | Sketchfab | |||
| Druids Oak | 5311 | Sketchfab | ✓ | repo1 | |
| Eddington Veteran Oak | 96156 | Sketchfab | repo1 | ||
| Gog Hatfield | 132309 | Sketchfab | ✓ | repo2 | |
| Hero Oak | Sketchfab | ||||
| King of Limbs | 20876 | Sketchfab | ✓ | repo2 | |
| Majesty Oak | 2251 | Sketchfab | ✓ | repo2 | |
| Major Oak | 1 | Sketchfab | ✓ | repo2 | |
| Marton Oak | 23583 | Sketchfab | repo2 | ||
| Meavy Oak | 157634 | Sketchfab | repo2 | ||
| Neil Gow’s Oak | 2114 | ✓ | repo2 | ||
| Oak at the Gate of the Dead | 195 | Sketchfab | ✓ | repo2 | |
| Oaks of Avalon | 28798 (Magog), 28784 (Gog) | Sketchfab | ✓ | Additional field where trees are labelled 1 (Magog) and 2 (Gog) | |
| Offa's Oak | 1462 | Sketchfab | ✓ | repo2 | |
| Old Man of Calke | 109 | Sketchfab | ✓ | repo2 | |
| Pwllpriddog Oak | 77528 | Sketchfab | repo2 | ||
| Queen Elizabeth Oak | 4418 | Sketchfab | captured with a RIEGL VZ-400 | ||
| Signing Oak | 8205 | Sketchfab | ✓ | repo2 | |
| West Dean Oak | 5915 | Sketchfab | captured with a RIEGL VZ-400 | ||
| Wyesham Oak | 6908 | Sketchfab | ✓ | repo2 | |
| Wyndham's Oak | 6884 | Sketchfab | ✓ |
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