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  <dc:title>Interactive Processing and Segmentation of Forest TLS
Point-Cloud Data</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package PiC version 3.3.3</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Tools for the processing, segmentation, and analysis of terrestrial laser 
    scanning (TLS and MLS) forest point-cloud data. The package provides fast 
    voxel-based processing, classification of point clouds into forest 
    floor, understory, canopy, and woody components, and algorithms for 
    single-tree analysis and structural characterization. Methods are designed 
    to handle large and dense point-cloud datasets efficiently, supporting 
    applications in forest structure assessment, connectivity analysis, and
    fire-risk evaluation. Input data are provided as '.xyz', '.txt', '.las', or '.laz' point-cloud files.
    The circle-fitting routines used for diameter estimation are adapted, in
    base R, from the 'conicfit' package (GPL-3) by Jose Gama, based on the
    original algorithms and code by Nikolai Chernov.
    For methodological details, see Ferrara and Arrizza (2025)
    &lt;https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14243/533471&gt; and Ferrara et al. (2018) 
    &lt;doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2018.04.008&gt;.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 4.3)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: collapse, data.table, dbscan, dplyr, magrittr, RANN, stats,
tictoc, terra, tools, utils</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: DT, fs, ggplot2, lidR, grid, gridExtra, later, plotly, shiny,
shinycssloaders, shinydashboard, shinydashboardPlus,
shinyFeedback, shinyFiles, shinyjs, shinythemes, scales,
shinyWidgets, testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0), tidyr, viridis, withr</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Roberto Ferrara &lt;roberto.ferrara@cnr.it&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Roberto Ferrara [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0009-0000-3627-6867&gt;),
  Stefano Arrizza [ctb] (ORCID: &lt;https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2290-3650&gt;),
  Nikolai Chernov [cph] (Author of the original circle-fitting algorithms
    and code),
  Jose Gama [ctb] (Author of the R implementation of the circle-fitting
    code in the 'conicfit' package)</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-07-29</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=PiC</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.PiC</dc:identifier>
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