[poochy]

The work of your friend sounds fascinating. Can you link to any published material? My professional work relates to tree risk and spatial analysis. Would love to see some of the higher level research.

[ortusdux]

This should be a good start: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/LiDAR_In...

Keep in mind that timber cruising is an industry, so there are also plenty of focus on software and hardware to speed up inventories: https://www.fs.fed.us/forestmanagement/products/measurement/...