Multispectral airborne laser scanning dataset for tree species classification: MS-ALS-SPECIES
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| author | Hyyppä, Matti Salolahti, Klaara Hyyppä, Eric Yu, Xiaowei Taher, Josef Matikainen, Leena Lehtomäki, Matti Litkey, Paula Hakala, Teemu Kaartinen, Harri Hyyppä, Juha Kukko, Antero |
| author_facet | Hyyppä, Matti Salolahti, Klaara Hyyppä, Eric Yu, Xiaowei Taher, Josef Matikainen, Leena Lehtomäki, Matti Litkey, Paula Hakala, Teemu Kaartinen, Harri Hyyppä, Juha Kukko, Antero |
| contents | The shift from stand-level to individual-tree-level forest assessments supports improved biodiversity mapping, particularly in boreal ecosystems where tree species like aspen (Populus tremula L.) play a keystone role. While airborne laser scanning (ALS) is the standard for such inventories, a major limitation is the small number of publicly available ALS datasets containing high-quality, field-validated reference data. Furthermore, open multispectral ALS datasets with high-quality field reference data are completely lacking despite the potential of multispectral ALS data for tree species classification. This paper presents and details an open multispectral ALS dataset used in a recent international benchmarking study of machine learning and deep learning methods for tree species classification by Taher et al. (2026). The dataset comprises 6326 segment-level point clouds of individual trees representing nine species in Southern Finland. The point cloud data has been acquired using two multispectral laser scanning systems each operating at three laser wavelengths: a helicopter-borne system (HeliALS) with a point density exceeding 1000 points/m$^2$ and an Optech Titan system with approximately 35 points/m$^2$. We provide a detailed description of field data collection techniques developed in the study to facilitate the collection of high-quality ground truth data in an efficient and scalable manner. Additionally, our article presents new analyses on species classification using multispectral data building upon the initial findings of Taher et al. (2026). Furthermore, we study the relation between classification accuracy and tree height to highlight the versatility of the open dataset and to demonstrate the advantage of the point transformer model for small trees and minority species. |
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| spellingShingle | Multispectral airborne laser scanning dataset for tree species classification: MS-ALS-SPECIES Hyyppä, Matti Salolahti, Klaara Hyyppä, Eric Yu, Xiaowei Taher, Josef Matikainen, Leena Lehtomäki, Matti Litkey, Paula Hakala, Teemu Kaartinen, Harri Hyyppä, Juha Kukko, Antero Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition The shift from stand-level to individual-tree-level forest assessments supports improved biodiversity mapping, particularly in boreal ecosystems where tree species like aspen (Populus tremula L.) play a keystone role. While airborne laser scanning (ALS) is the standard for such inventories, a major limitation is the small number of publicly available ALS datasets containing high-quality, field-validated reference data. Furthermore, open multispectral ALS datasets with high-quality field reference data are completely lacking despite the potential of multispectral ALS data for tree species classification. This paper presents and details an open multispectral ALS dataset used in a recent international benchmarking study of machine learning and deep learning methods for tree species classification by Taher et al. (2026). The dataset comprises 6326 segment-level point clouds of individual trees representing nine species in Southern Finland. The point cloud data has been acquired using two multispectral laser scanning systems each operating at three laser wavelengths: a helicopter-borne system (HeliALS) with a point density exceeding 1000 points/m$^2$ and an Optech Titan system with approximately 35 points/m$^2$. We provide a detailed description of field data collection techniques developed in the study to facilitate the collection of high-quality ground truth data in an efficient and scalable manner. Additionally, our article presents new analyses on species classification using multispectral data building upon the initial findings of Taher et al. (2026). Furthermore, we study the relation between classification accuracy and tree height to highlight the versatility of the open dataset and to demonstrate the advantage of the point transformer model for small trees and minority species. |
| title | Multispectral airborne laser scanning dataset for tree species classification: MS-ALS-SPECIES |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.24370 |