Methodology comparison for canopy structure parameters extraction from digital hemispherical photography in boreal forests

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 129, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 187-207

  Leblanc, Sylvain G ^a   Chen, Jing M ^b   Fernandes, Richard ^a   Deering, Donald W ^c   Conley, Alexis ^c  

^a LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy architecture; Hemispherical photography; Leaf area index; TRAC

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; PHOTOGRAMMETRY;

EID: 16844373378     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2004.09.006     Document Type: Article

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