1. A PLATFORM FOR MORPHOLOGICAL DIVERSITY I LYA P OTAPOV T AMPERE U NIVERSITY OF T ECHNOLOGY S TOCHASTIC S TRUCTURAL P LANT M ODELS

2. Closer Data-Model Interaction Usually Functional-Structural Plant Models (FSPM) utilize fixed parameters obtained from “average” experiment. Experimentally defined parameters imply certain conditions that are not universal. Different objects and experimentations are referred to for the same model. Simple functions assumed. Data are not used every time the model runs.

3. Statistical clone generator Stochastic Structural Model (SSM) is a statistical “clone” generator… That is, SSM produces trees with statistically similar structural characteristics, but not exact copies of each other.

4. Forest applications Single-species defined forest Two-species forests

5. Data = QSM Pasi Raumonen et al., Remote Sens. 5(2), 491-520, 2013. Laser scanning 3D point cloud Quantitative Structural tree Model (QSM) QSM possesses all geometrical and topological information QSM possesses all geometrical and topological information Cylinder-based model (or any other geometrical primitive) Cylinder-based model (or any other geometrical primitive)

6. SSM = a structure model with stochasticity Full description compatibility with QSM (i.e. the same geometrical and topological information). Stochastic rules of growth to account for variability.

7. SSM compatible with Data DATA MODEL Goal: Find the maximum correspondence between DATA and MODEL data sets OR: Find maximum overlapping of the distributions

8. Intraspecific diversity 1.What makes two trees different? 2.How much are they different? Particularly: How much do the (genetic) clones differ?

9. Bio-diversity: quantitative aspect What is the mutual (structural) distance D s between objects? D s (frog, cypress_1) = ? D s (cypress_1,cypress_2) = ?

10. Construction of a (structural) distance 1.Characteristics to measure. 2.Algorithm to quantitatively compare the measured characteristics from two sources. 3.D s (DATA,MODEL) = 0  Full correspondence between DATA and MODEL.

11. Overall algorithm (“Bayes Forest”)

12. Open questions 1.Faster/simpler SSM candidates to facilitate the calibration of the “Bayes Forest” algorithm. 2.Quantitative relation between real (genetic) clones and SSM-generated “clones”.