Ecosystem and Canopy Structural Complexity Metrics from LiDAR
Adjust by user height
Calculate rugosity and other higher level complexity metrics
Calculate gap fraction
Intensity Statistics
Calculate rugosity and other higher level complexity metrics
Calculates rumple
Calculates rumple
Process single PCL transects.
Calculate vegetation area index (VAI) from normalized PCL data matrix
Code hits
Cover and sky fraction estimates
Get transect length of PCL transect (in meters)
Make PCL matrix for higher level complexity measures
Make PCL matrix part one
Make PCL matrix part two
Creates summary matrix
Normalize PCL data based on light saturation and attenuation
PCL diagnostic plot
Plots LiDAR hit grids of VAI
Graphs Plant Area Volume Density Profiles
Process multiplie PCL transects.
Process single PCL transects.
Process single PCL transects.
read_pcl imports PCL or portable canopy LiDAR files into the workspa...
read_pcl_multi imports PCL or portable canopy LiDAR files into the w...
Split transects from PCL
Writes hit matrix to csv for further analysis
Writes csc metrics and output variables to .csv
Writes csc metrics and output variables to .csv
Provides a toolkit for calculating forest and canopy structural complexity metrics from terrestrial LiDAR (light detection and ranging). References: Atkins et al. 2018 <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13061>; Hardiman et al. 2013 <doi:10.3390/f4030537>; Parker et al. 2004 <doi:10.1111/j.0021-8901.2004.00925.x>.