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FOR-instance

Sensor
ULS · UAV laser scanning
Region
Norway, Czech Republic, Austria, New Zealand, Australia (CULS, NIBIO, RMIT, SCION, TUWIEN)
Labels
Individual tree instances and semantic classes
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Paper
FOR-instance: a UAV laser scanning benchmark dataset for semantic and instance segmentation of individual trees

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Point cloud sample from FOR-instance
A 20 × 20 m crop of NIBIO plot 10, 60,000 points, coloured by the reference labels. Data: FOR-instance, CC BY 4.0.

Benchmark for semantic and instance segmentation of individual trees from UAV laser scanning.

FOR-instanceV2

Sensor
other · UAV, mobile and terrestrial laser scanning
Region
9 collections in 6 countries
Size
94 plots (48 / 17 / 29 split), 613.9 M points, 12.3 GB
Labels
Semantic (ground, wood, leaf) and tree instances
Licence
GPL-3.0-or-later (as listed on Zenodo)
Paper
ForestFormer3D: A Unified Framework for End-to-End Segmentation of Forest LiDAR 3D Point Clouds

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Point cloud sample from FOR-instanceV2
A 20 × 20 m crop of NIBIO mobile laser scanning plot 56, 60,000 points, coloured by the reference labels. Data: FOR-instanceV2, GPL-3.0-or-later as listed on Zenodo.

Released with ForestFormer3D together with the pre-trained model. The BlueCat TLS collection holds most of the points.

ForestSemantic-MS

Sensor
ALS · Multispectral helicopter LiDAR (SWIR, NIR, green)
Region
Finland (boreal forest)
Size
6 plots, 0.7 ha, 9.6 M points, 131 MB
Labels
Foliage, ground, low vegetation, branches, trunk, woody debris
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Paper
3D Forest Semantic Segmentation Using Multispectral LiDAR and 3D Deep Learning
Used in
Notebook 01: PointNet and PointNet++ baselines on ForestSemantic-MS, Notebook 02: sampling retention gate

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Point cloud sample from ForestSemantic-MS
A 20 × 17 m crop of test plot 1, 60,000 points, coloured by the reference labels. Data: ForestSemantic-MS, CC BY 4.0.

Official split: four training plots and two test plots, with no validation plot.

LAUTx

Sensor
MLS/PLS · Handheld personal laser scanning (GeoSLAM), leaf-off, March 2019
Region
Lower Austria
Size
6 plots, 515 manually segmented trees
Labels
Individual tree point clouds; measured crown base for 489 trees
Licence
CC BY 4.0

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Point cloud sample from LAUTx
A 20 × 20 m crop of plot p14 from the extended LAUTx scenes, 60,000 points, coloured by height above ground in the project's layer bands (not labels). Data: extended Wytham and LAUTx scenes (GRO.data), CC BY 4.0.

Ground reference for the HELIOS++ hide-and-check test.

NASA FIRMS active fires

Sensor
satellite · MODIS / VIIRS active fire detections
Region
Global (local copy: Sri Lanka, MODIS 2015–2024)

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WildForest3D

Sensor
ULS · UAV LiDAR, about 60 pulses per square metre
Region
Aquitaine, France
Size
29 plots, 7.0 M points
Labels
Tree id per point; 1,570 trees with species and size; 0.5 m layer rasters (coverage, height, whether determinable)
Licence
Not stated (no licence file in the repository)
Paper
Multi-Layer Modeling of Dense Vegetation from Aerial LiDAR Scans

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The main training dataset of the thesis. In the two lower layers most raster cells are marked undetermined, so the lower-layer answer key is sparse.

Wytham Woods TLS

Sensor
TLS · RIEGL VZ-400 terrestrial laser scanning, leaf-off, Dec 2015 – Jan 2016
Region
Oxford, United Kingdom
Size
1.4 ha plot, 876 tree point clouds
Labels
Individual trees and quantitative structure models (QSMs)
Licence
CC BY 4.0

Download Extended Wytham + LAUTx scenes (GRO.data)

Point cloud sample from Wytham Woods TLS
A 20 × 20 m crop of the Wytham Woods scene from the extended scenes, 60,000 points, coloured by height above ground in the project's layer bands (not labels). Data: extended Wytham and LAUTx scenes (GRO.data), CC BY 4.0.

Ground reference for the HELIOS++ hide-and-check test.

Planned

ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 mosaics and forest map

Sensor
SAR · L-band SAR mosaics and forest / non-forest map
Region
Global

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FOR-species20K

Sensor
other · Single-tree point clouds from UAV, mobile and terrestrial laser scanning
Labels
Tree species
Licence
GPL-3.0-or-later (as listed on Zenodo)

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GEDI L2A

Sensor
satellite · Spaceborne LiDAR elevation and height metrics (footprint level, V002)
Region
Global (about 51.6° S to 51.6° N)

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GEDI L2B

Sensor
satellite · Spaceborne LiDAR canopy cover and vertical profile metrics (footprint level, V002)
Region
Global (about 51.6° S to 51.6° N)

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IGN BD ORTHO

Sensor
aerial imagery · 20 cm RGB / infrared orthophotos
Region
France

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The multimodal extension: used only where image dates align with the LiDAR.

IGN LiDAR HD

Sensor
ALS · Nationwide airborne LiDAR point clouds
Region
France

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Planned for the WildForest3D plots (Aquitaine).

NEON Airborne Observation Platform

Sensor
ALS · Airborne LiDAR, hyperspectral and RGB, with field plots
Region
United States

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SeasFire Cube

Sensor
other · Global datacube for seasonal fire modelling
Region
Global
Licence
CC BY 4.0

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TERN data portal

Sensor
other · Ecosystem observations, including LiDAR and TLS plots
Region
Australia

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For a possible link with RMIT.

TreeSatAI

Sensor
aerial imagery · Aerial imagery with Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 patches
Region
Lower Saxony, Germany
Labels
Tree species
Licence
CC BY 4.0

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For SAR and optical fusion.

WildfireSpreadTS

Sensor
satellite · Multi-modal time series for wildfire spread prediction
Region
United States
Licence
CC BY 4.0

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