• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.39 no.5_4
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• pp.1145-1153
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• 2023

Urban trees play an important role in absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, improving air quality, mitigating the urban heat island effect, and providing ecosystem services. To effectively manage and conserve urban trees, accurate spatial information on their location, condition, species, and population is needed. In this study, we propose an algorithm that uses a high-resolution urban tree cover map constructed from deep learning approach to separate trees from the urban land surface and accurately detect tree locations through local maximum filtering. Instead of using a uniform filter size, we improved the tree detection performance by selecting the appropriate filter size according to the tree height in consideration of various urban growth environments. The research output, the location and height of individual trees in human settlement over Suwon, will serve as a basis for sustainable management of urban ecosystems and carbon reduction measures.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.155-163
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• 2021

The number of trees to be removed trees (ART) in the environmental impact assessment is an environmental indicator used in various parts such as greenhouse gas emissions and waste of forest trees calculation. Until now, the ART has depended on the forest tree density of the vegetation survey, and the uncertainty of estimating the amount of removed trees has increased due to the sampling bias. A full-scale survey can be offered as an alternative to improve the accuracy of ART, but the reality is that it is impossible. As an alternative, there is an individual tree detection using aerial image (ITD), and in this study, we compared the ARTs estimated by full-scale survey, sample survey, and ITD. According to the research results, compared to the result of full-scale survey, the result of ITD was overestimated by 25. While 58 were overestimated by the sample survey (average). However, as the sample survey is an estimate based on random samples, ART will be overestimated or underestimated depending on the number and size of quadrats.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.38 no.6_2
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• pp.1633-1641
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• 2022

Urban population concentration and indiscriminate development are causing various environmental problems such as air pollution and heat island phenomena, and causing human resources to deteriorate the damage caused by natural disasters. Urban trees have been proposed as a solution to these urban problems, and actually play an important role, such as providing environmental improvement functions. Accordingly, quantitative measurement and analysis of individual trees in urban trees are required to understand the effect of trees on the urban environment. However, the complexity and diversity of urban trees have a problem of lowering the accuracy of single tree detection. Therefore, we conducted a study to effectively detect trees in Dongjak-gu using high-resolution aerial images that enable effective detection of tree objects and You Only Look Once Version 5 (YOLOv5), which showed excellent performance in object detection. Labeling guidelines for the construction of tree AI learning datasets were generated, and box annotation was performed on Dongjak-gu trees based on this. We tested various scale YOLOv5 models from the constructed dataset and adopted the optimal model to perform more efficient urban tree detection, resulting in significant results of mean Average Precision (mAP) 0.663.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.293-298
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• 2005

LIDAR의 표고점 데이터는 건물, 수목 등의 개체를 구성하는 비지면점과 순수한 지표면을 나타내는 지면점들이 섞여있기 때문에 이들을 분리하는 과정이 필요하다. 지금까지 연구된 방법들은 몇 가지 입력 요소가 필요하여 완전 자동화를 이루지는 못하고 있으며, 다양한 크기의 개체를 동시에 자동으로 찾아내기 어렵고 경사진 지형에 대해서는 적용하기 어려운 문제점을 가지고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 원 데이터의 동일 스캔 라인 상에 존재하는 이웃 점들 간의 경사를 이용하여 입력 요소를 최소화하여 개체를 추출하고자 한다. 이웃하는 두 점플 간의 경사를 이용하여 비지면점을 탐지하여 이웃하는 지면점의 높이 값으로 대체하며 갱신된 값을 바로 다음 연산에 반영시킴으로써 윈도우를 사용하거나 그룹화 할 필요가 없다. 또한 갱신된 값을 전파시키기 때문에 복잡한 지붕을 가지는 건물도 추출할 수가 있다. 이와 같은 연산을 두 방향에 대하여 수행하여 경사진 지형에 대하여 적용할 수 있도록 하였으며 천안과 마산지역에 대하여 테스트를 수행하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.259-268
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• 2012

This paper aims to estimate the carbon dioxide stocks in forests using airborne LiDAR data with a density of approximate 4.4 points per meter square. To achieve this goal, a processing chain consisting of bare earth Digital Terrain Model(DTM) extraction and individual tree top detection has been developed. As results of this experiment, the reliable DTM with type-II errors of 3.32% and tree positions with overall accuracy of 66.26% were extracted in the study area. The total estimated carbon dioxide stocks in the study area using extracted 3-D forests structures well suited with the traditional method by field measurements upto 7.2% error level. This results showed that LiDAR technology is highly valuable for replacing the existing forest resources inventory.