Terrestrial LiDAR derived point clouds and quantitative structure models for Kew Wakehurst

Approximately 2500 individually segmented trees captured with terrestrial LiDAR across three forest types at Kew Wakehurst. Version 1 includes: point clouds in polygon format and TreeQSM Quantitaive Structure Models (QSM) in MATLAB binary format. MATLAB format files can be read with open software such as octave and SciPy. Descriptions of QSM fields and methods used to derive QSMs can be found here. Version 2 includes: an updated summary .csv file that lists per-tree attributes two Jupyter notebooks for recreating analysis. Point clouds are British National Grid projection (EPSG:27700) and have the following fields: X, Y, Z, label (TLS2trees (https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.14233 derived semantic label) and wood (TLSeparation https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13144 derived semantic label). Point cloud data can be viewed using CloudCompare. Data was collected as part of the Nature Returns project. Nature Returns is led by Natural England (NE), in partnership with the Environment Agency (EA), Forestry Commission (FC) and Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) Kew, Wakehurst (Kew, Wakehurst). It is co-sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and is funded through the HM Treasury’s Shared Outcomes Fund and the Defra Net Zero Research and Development budget. We would also like to acknowledge the help of Gary Egan, Elloise Budd, Shaun Hooper, Katie, James, David Adams, Russell Croft, Stephen Robinson and Martin Delbridge.