ForestVis is an interactive visualisation of forest data derived from LiDAR and multispectral imagery: explore the 3D point cloud alongside a linked minimap, filter trees by their attributes, and compare them in a UMAP projection.

Links

Demo: https://benpowley.github.io/ForestVis-Demo/
Source code: https://github.com/BenPowley/ForestVis-Demo

Developers

Benjamin Powley, Petra Horváth, Claudio D. G. Linhares

Paper authors

Benjamin Powley, Petra Horváth, Basam Dahy, Nivan Ferreira, Johan E. S. Fransson, Andreas Kerren, Claudio D. G. Linhares and Amilcar Soares. ForestVis: Visualization of 3D Forestry Point Clouds, IEEE VIS 2026.

InfraVis

Node Coordinator: Andreas Kerren
Application Experts: Benjamin Powley, Petra Horváth, Claudio D. G. Linhares, Reem Othman, Karen Larkina, Amilcar Soares
InfraVis project page

Built with

Giro3D, three.js, OpenLayers, d3, umap-js and fast-kde. Licenses for these and all other third-party software are listed in third-party licenses.

Lower Teakettle (TEAK), Sierra Nevada, California: 300 × 300 m around the NEON tower, with 3 × 3 km of surrounding forest. Flown July 2023.

Data citations

• NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network). Discrete return LiDAR point cloud (DP1.30003.001), RELEASE-2026. https://doi.org/10.48443/5ts2-rc92. Dataset accessed from https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP1.30003.001/RELEASE-2026 on October 12, 2026
• NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network). High-resolution orthorectified camera imagery mosaic (DP3.30010.001), RELEASE-2026. https://doi.org/10.48443/8vq2-s021. Dataset accessed from https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP3.30010.001/RELEASE-2026 on October 12, 2026
• NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network). Spectrometer orthorectified surface bidirectional reflectance - mosaic (DP3.30006.002), PROVISIONAL. Data accessed from https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/DP3.30006.002 on October 12, 2026.

Data Source Acknowledgement

"This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), a program sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and operated under cooperative agreement by Battelle."

Data License and Changes

CC BY 4.0. Modified for this demo: cropped and thinned, tree instances from SegmentAnyTree (Wielgosz et al., 2024), vegetation indices computed from the reflectance data.

Privacy

This demo sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser and uses no analytics or tracking. Everything is served from this site except the minimap background, which your browser loads from OpenStreetMap's tile servers, so the OpenStreetMap Foundation can access the technical information your browser sends with each request, such as your IP address, browser details and the map tiles requested. Any data the OpenStreetMap Foundation collects or processes is covered by the OSMF Privacy Policy. The site is hosted on GitHub Pages, so GitHub can access the technical information your browser sends with each request, such as your IP address, browser details and the pages and files requested. Any data GitHub collects or processes is covered by GitHub's site policies, such as the GitHub General Privacy Statement.