AI RESEARCH

FSKD: Monocular Forest Structure Inference via LiDAR-to-RGBI Knowledge Distillation

arXiv CS.CV

ArXi:2604.01766v1 Announce Type: new Very High Resolution (VHR) forest structure data at individual-tree scale is essential for carbon, biodiversity, and ecosystem monitoring. Still, airborne LiDAR remains costly and infrequent despite being the reference for forest structure metrics like Canopy Height Model (CHM), Plant Area Index (PAI), and Foliage Height Diversity