ad38662d-46fc-424f-8987-c6e514ad5d1b 642002de-0be8-4509-9375-a83ecae395cc 1.0 LiDAR Point Cloud Analysis using Laserfarm Workflow Virtual Lab 2024-02-08 Quantifying ecosystem structure is essential for sustainable forest management, species distribution research, dynamic ecosystem modelling, and biodiversity monitoring. Recent years have seen a rapid surge in the use of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) technology for characterizing the structure of ecosystems. Yet, a key bottleneck is the availability of free and open-source tools that allow a standardized processing of large amounts of LiDAR point clouds in an efficient and distributed way. Here, we integrate a high-throughput workflow called "Laserfarm" into NaaVRE, enabling the efficient, scalable, and distributed processing of LiDAR point clouds from national and regional airborne laser scanning (ALS) surveys into geospatial data products of ecosystem structure.<div>The vLab has been created by using the LifeWatch NaaVRE platform (<a href="https://naavre.net" target="_blank">https://naavre.net/</a>).</div> Yifang Shi Biodiversity & Macroecology (BIOMAC) lab, Department Theoretical and Computational Ecology (TCE) Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED) University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands y.shi@uva.nl https://metadatacatalogue.lifewatch.eu/srv/api/records/ad38662d-46fc-424f-8987-c6e514ad5d1b/attachments/laserfarm_tumbnail.png Laserfarm thumbnail https://github.com/NaaVRE/vl-laserfarm/blob/main/documentation/images/laserfarm-v2.svg Laserfarm thumbnail Essential biodiversity variable Ecosystem structure Airborne laser scanning Vegetation metrics Horizontal and vertical properties Ecosystem dynamics High-throughput workflow Distributed computing License is being negotiated with the virtual lab developer. https://beta.naavre.net/vreapp/vl/laserfarm WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link Link to the vLab https://naavre.net Open NaaVRE https://beta.naavre.net/jupyter/hub/user-redirect/lab/tree/Virtual%20Labs/Laserfarm/Git%20public/LiDAR_Vlab_tutorial.ipynb