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The Smartphone D-tape. A Lightening Talk presented by: Dr. John A. Kershaw, Jr. Professor of Forest Mensuration Faculty of Forestry & EM, University of New Brunswick. 1813. 1913. 1963. 2013. There are some alternatives. Close-range photogrammetric approaches.
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The Smartphone D-tape A Lightening Talk presented by: Dr. John A. Kershaw, Jr. Professor of Forest Mensuration Faculty of Forestry & EM, University of New Brunswick
Close-range photogrammetric approaches • Stereo photographs with known center-point distances • Vanishing Point Horizon with laser pointer • Dual lasers with known laser distance • An alternative
Criteria • Fast • Accurate • Repeatable • Cheap • Automated
Smartphone • Decent high resolution camera • App development easy and cheaply distributed • Compact, and since most everyone has one, not an additional piece of equipment
Goal • Take two photos, with random phone movement (distance, rotation and yawl) • From these two photos determine: • Camera shift • {X,Y,Z} coordinates • Estimate DBH
Coincident Photos Add the DBH line, map the pixels from one photo to the other
DBH Estimate • OLS solution to the Fundamental Equation • Camera Focal Length and Camera Aspect Ratio used to convert from pixels to real world coordinates • DBH estimated from 3D coordinate distances • Include inclination angle for upper stem diameters (Grosenbaugh 1963)