Individual tree detection and crown delineation from Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) LiDAR in structurally complex mixed species eucalypt forests

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Funding Acknowledgements

We acknowledge funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC) for Linkage Project (LP160100597), and Melbourne Water for providing the Industry Partnership in the project. We thank University of Tasmania's TerraLuma group for providing the technical skill in building and calibrating the UAS LiDAR platform, in particular we thank Richard Ballard for mechatronics support and Darren Turner for training. We thank University of Melbourne's field technicians for collecting the ground data, in particular Emma Keith, Joseph Hall, and Christopher Lyell.