Automatic thresholding for hemispherical canopy-photographs based on edge detection

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 128, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 243-250

  Nobis, Michael ^a   Hunziker, Urs ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automatic threshold; Canopy light gaps; Digital image processing; Forest ecosystem; Hemispherical photography; Photon flux density

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHOTOGRAPH; PHOTON FLUX DENSITY;

EID: 13244250021     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2004.10.002     Document Type: Article

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