This tutorial presents R code for forest gaps and edges detection from Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data. The workflow is based on functions from packages lidaRtRee and lidR.

The following files are provided:

• Rmarkdown source,
• Forest gaps and edges detection tutorial in html,
• Forest gaps and edges detection tutorial in pdf,
• a bibliography file
• datasets required to run the source code are also available on the repository.

Change log

• Jan 2021: updated to comply with lidR 3.1.0 and lidaRtRee 3.0.0
• Oct 2020: checked compatibility with lidR 3.0.3
• May 2020: added edge detection
• Feb 2019: updated for compatibility with package lidR 2.0.0 and lidaRtRee 2.0.0
• June 2018: first version