AdTree implements the tree reconstruction method described in the following paper:

Shenglan Du, Roderik Lindenbergh, Hugo Ledoux, Jantien Stoter, and Liangliang Nan.
AdTree: Accurate, Detailed, and Automatic Modelling of Laser-Scanned Trees.
Remote Sensing. 2019, 11(18), 2074.

Please consider citing our paper if you use the code/program (or part of it).

3D Trees reconstructed from point clouds

Textured rendering (both leaves and branches) coming soon ...

Build and Run AdTree

AdTree depends on some third-party libraries and most dependencies are included in the distribution except Boost. So you will need to have Boost install first.

Note: AdTree uses a stripped earlier version of Easy3D, which is not compatible with the latest version.

You need CMake and of course a compiler to build AdTree:

• CMake >= 3.1
• a compiler that supports >= C++11

AdTree has been tested on macOS (Xcode >= 8), Windows (MSVC >=2015), and Linux (GCC >= 4.8, Clang >= 3.3). Machines nowadays typically provide higher supports, so you should be able to build AdTree on almost all platforms.

There are many options to build AdTree. Choose one of the following (or whatever you are familar with):

• Option 1: Use any IDE that can directly handle CMakeLists files to open the CMakeLists.txt in the root directory of AdTree. Then you should have obtained a usable project and just build. I recommend using CLion or QtCreator.
• Option 2: Use CMake to generate project files for your IDE. Then load the project to your IDE and build.
• Option 3: Use CMake to generate Makefiles and then make (on Linux/macOS) or nmake(on Windows with Microsoft Visual Studio).

Don't have any experience with C/C++ programming? Have a look at How to build AdTree step by step.

This demo version provides a user interface with menus. Just clicking on the menus will do all the magic :-)

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Data

Some test tree point clouds are provided in the 'data' folder.

Note: When testing on your point clouds, please make sure that:

• you point cloud represents a single tree (i.e., the tree is segmented out from the background; no ground, no fence...);
• the tree has an upright orientation (i.e., with Z-axis pointing up).

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License

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License or (at your option) any later version. The full text of the license can be found in the accompanying LICENSE file.

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Should you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, please contact us at liangliang.nan@tudelft.nl

3D Geoinformation Research Group, TU Delft,

https://3d.bk.tudelft.nl,

Dec. 1, 2019