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Due to its complex canopy structure and particular growth pattern, the AGBs of individual bamboos that were estimated using traditional remotely sensed data are of relatively low accuracy. In recent years, the point cloud data scanned by terrestrial laser scanners (TLS) offer the possibility for more accurate estimations of bamboo AGB. However, bamboo culms tend to have various bending degrees during the growth process, which causes the AGB estimated on culm height (H) to be generally less than the true value. In this paper, taking one sample plot of the Moso bamboo forest in Hutou Village, Chongqing, China as the study site, we employed a TLS to acquire the point cloud data. The layer-wise distance discrimination method was first developed to accurately segment individual bamboos from the dense stand. Next, the diameter at breast height (DBH) and culm length (L) of an individual bamboo were precisely extracted by fitting the cross-section circle and constructing the longitudinal axis of the bamboo culm, respectively. Lastly, the AGBs of the Moso bamboos in the study site were separately calculated using the allometric equations with the DBH and L as predictor variables. As results, the precision of the complete bamboo segmentation was 90.4%; the absolute error (AE) of the extracted DBHs ranged from \u22121.22 cm to 0.88 cm (R2 = 0.93, RMSE = 0.40 cm); the AE of the extracted Hs varied from \u20130.77 m to 1.02 m (R2 = 0.91, RMSE = 0.45 m); and the AE of the extracted Ls varied from \u22121.08 m to 0.77 m (R2 = 0.95, RMSE = 0.23 m). The total estimated AGB of the Moso bamboos in the sample plot increased by 2.85%, from 680.40 kg on H to 696.36 kg on L. These measurements demonstrated the unique benefits of the TLS-acquired point cloud in characterizing the structural parameters of Moso bamboos and estimating their AGBs with high accuracy.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs14215537","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,3]],"date-time":"2022-11-03T03:53:07Z","timestamp":1667447587000},"page":"5537","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Refined Aboveground Biomass Estimation of Moso Bamboo Forest Using Culm Lengths Extracted from TLS Point Cloud"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Rui","family":"Jiang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Chongqing Jinfo Mountain Karst Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China"},{"name":"Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Remote Sensing Big Data Application, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jiayuan","family":"Lin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Chongqing Jinfo Mountain Karst Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China"},{"name":"Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Remote Sensing Big Data Application, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Tianxi","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Chongqing Jinfo Mountain Karst Ecosystem National Observation and Research Station, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China"},{"name":"Chongqing Engineering Research Center for Remote Sensing Big Data Application, School of Geographical Sciences, Southwest University, Chongqing 400715, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1431","DOI":"10.1080\/01431160903551389","article-title":"Estimation of aboveground carbon stock of Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys heterocycla var. pubescens) forest with a Landsat Thematic Mapper image","volume":"32","author":"Xu","year":"2011","journal-title":"Int. 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