Nine boreal trees (3 Scots pines, 3 Norway spruces, 3 Downy birches) were reconstructed using terrestrial laser scanning point clouds in december 2015 at the Evo test site, followed by destructive sampling for measuring the stem taper curve using calipers as the reference. More details in the original publication: Saarinen, N., Kankare, V., Vastaranta, M., Luoma, V., Pyörälä, J., Tanhuanpää, T., Liang, X., Kaartinen, H., Kukko, A., Jaakkola, A. and Yu, X., 2017. Feasibility of Terrestrial laser scanning for collecting stem volume information from single trees. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 123, pp.140-158. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2016.11.012

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