Q-ForestLab is a research lab at Ghent University (Belgium) studying the dynamics, ecology, biogeochemistry and water cycling of terrestrial ecosystems.

Here, we host our public code, documentation and manuals.

Fieldwork preparation

• Make a grid with rover
• Lascar EL-USB-2 microclimate logger

Point cloud processing of laser scanning data of forests and trees

Point cloud registration with RiSCAN PRO

• co-registration of VZ-400 data
• co-registration of VZ-400i data

General RiSCAN PRO manual

• RiSCAN PRO

Pylidar for RIEGL

• Pylidar-tls-canopy
• Make profiles with Pylidar

Leaf-wood segmentation

• Leaf-wood segmentation with GBSeparation
• Leaf-wood segmentation with point wise deep learning networks

Instance segmentation

• Instance segmentation with RayCloudTools

• Instance segmentation with TLS2trees

• Benchmark evaluation of instance segmentation

• Propagation of instance segmentation

• Manual for correction of instance segmentation

Quantitative structure modelling

• Build QSMs with TreeQSM V2.0
• Build QSMs with RayCloudTools

Calculation of structural metrics

• Individual Tree Structural Metrics - ITSMe

Visualisation

• Coloring tree point clouds with CloudCompare

GEDI processing

Tutorials GEDI

• Tutorial GEDI practical Advanced Remote Sensing

Vegetation Modelling

Tutorials

• Getting started on UGent hpc cluster
• ED2 tutorial
• CLM-FATES tutorial

Models

• FATES
• ED2
• NOAH-MP
• ForEdgeClim