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Lidar

Using lidar point clouds to analyze and visualize forest structure

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Abstract

We demo Lidar analysis using Whitebox tools and other python packages.

Keywords:datageospatialopen-science

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# import libraries
import whitebox
import whitebox_workflows as wbw
import geemap
import rioxarray as rxr
import rasterio
import earthpy as et
import earthpy.plot as ep
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import geopandas as gpd
from rasterio.plot import plotting_extent
# instantiate whitebox tools
wbt = whitebox.WhiteboxTools()