A comparison of digital and film fisheye photography for analysis of forest canopy structure and gap light transmission

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 109, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 249-263

  Frazer, Gordon W ^a   Fournier, Richard A ^b   Trofymow, J A ^c   Hall, Ronald J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^d NORTHERN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canopy openness; Canopy structure; Digital photography; Fisheye photography; Forest canopies; Gap light analyzer; Hemispherical canopy photography; Leaf area index; Light transmission

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; FOREST CANOPY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 0035960070     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-1923(01)00274-X     Document Type: Article

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