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Toward a foundation model for forest point clouds

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 21, 2026 · UTC

Forest inventories increasingly rely on artificial intelligence (AI) models to derive forest attributes from large-scale 3D point clouds. Current models are typically specialized to a single task, sensor, and forest type, making adaptation expensive in terms of annotations, computation, and expertise. We ask whether a single pretrained model can instead learn transferable representations across diverse forest inventory settings. Inspired by recent developments in language modelling and computer vision, we take a step toward a foundation model (FM) for 3D forestry. Using LitePT as backbone, we

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