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Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) plays an important role in forest management. New technologies such as airborne and terrestrial Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) are expensive and time-consuming. We explored the iPad LiDAR sensor to measure DBH considering affordability and availability. The study was carried out at a research forest plantation near Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. Five plots were selected for differences in stem spacing, average DBH and species, and made 360° scans separately. A manual circle fitting method was used to produce circular features for the estimation of DBH. The coefficient of determination ( R2 ) between estimated DBH and field measurements was 0.52, indicating a moderate accuracy. The Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of DBH estimation ranged from 2.82 cm to 8.24 cm. The accuracy of smaller red pine trees was found to be relatively higher than that of larger red pine and white spruce trees. These accuracies did not change with the distance from the scanning location to trees. Therefore, results showed the potential use of an iPad LiDAR Scanner for DBH estimation. We recommend developing an application combining the iPad’s location and LiDAR sensors and incorporating a precise positioning method for fieldwork, and further broad field testing.

Estimating tree Diameter at Breast Height (DBH) using an iPad Pro LiDAR sensor