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This study aimed to find a suitable LiDAR platform for obtaining attributes such as breast height diameter and canopy area, as well as for measuring a digital terrain model (DTM), the base data for hydrological analysis. A mangrove forest near the mouth of the Oura River in Aza-Oura, Nago City, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, was studied. We used data from terrestrial LiDAR scanning \u201cTLS\u201d and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) LiDAR scanning \u201cULS\u201d as well as data merged from TLS and ULS \u201cMerge\u201d. By interpolating point clouds of the ground surface, DTMs of 5 cm \u00d7 5 cm were created. DTMs obtained from ULS could not reproduce the heaps of Thalassina anomala or forest floor microtopography compared with those obtained from TLS. Considering that ULS had a few point clouds in the forest, automatic trunk identification could not be used to segment trees. TLS could segment trees by automatically identifying trunks, but the number of trees identified roughly doubled that of the visual identification results. The number of tree crowns identified using TLS and ULS was approximately one quarter of those identified visually, and many of them were larger in area than the visually traced crowns. The accuracy of tree segmentation using the canopy height model (CHM) was low. The number of canopy trees identified using Merge produced the best results, accounting for 61% of the visual identification results. Results of tree segmentation by CHM suggest that combining TLS and ULS measurements may improve tree canopy identification. Although ULS is a promising new technology, its applications are clearly limited, at least in mangrove forests such as the Oura River, where Bruguiera gymnorhiza is dominant. Depending on the application, using different LiDAR platforms, such as airborne LiDAR scanning, UAV LiDAR scanning, and TLS, is important. Merging 3D point clouds acquired by different platforms, as proposed in this study, is an important option in this case.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15041033","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,14]],"date-time":"2023-02-14T03:41:17Z","timestamp":1676346077000},"page":"1033","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Suitable LiDAR Platform for Measuring the 3D Structure of Mangrove Forests"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8199-3248","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hideyuki","family":"Niwa","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Bioenvironmental Science, Kyoto University of Advanced Science, 1-1 Sogabe-cho Nanjyo Otani, Kameoka 621-8555, Japan"}]},{"given":"Hajime","family":"Ise","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Advanced Technology and Science, Tokushima University, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan"}]},{"given":"Mahito","family":"Kamada","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Technology, Industrial and Social Sciences, Tokushima University, Tokushima 770-8506, Japan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"62","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ecoser.2012.06.003","article-title":"Ecosystem service values for mangroves in Southeast Asia: A meta-analysis and value transfer application","volume":"1","author":"Brander","year":"2012","journal-title":"Ecosyst. 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