Derminder SinghSingla, Nikita2017-11-262017-11-262017http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810036474Tree volume is one of the oldest areas of interest and is a crucial task in tree management system. Estimating the woody volume of a live tree is important for economic, scientific purposes and provides a tool to researcher/grower. It provides the useful information about the commercial value of wood to the potential buyer/seller. Manual methods are being used largely to calculate woody volume of a tree. These methods are based on different log rules, cumbersome and laborious. The present work proposed a digital image processing technique to estimate the woody volume of a live tree. The developed program successfully determines the woody volume of standing tree trunk with MATLAB image processing techniques. In this method three parameters an individual tree were extracted from digital images of the tree. Calibration factor was also calculated to make the method independent of camera distance from the tree. The method was tested on several samples of trees and compared to experimental results. This software generates information about height, diameter and volume of the tree. The percentage error of height, diameter and volume of standing tree by proposed method was found to be less than 6.65%.ennullDevelopment of software to estimate woody volume of a live treeThesis