Determining digital hemispherical photograph exposure for leaf area index estimation

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 133, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 166-181

  Zhang, Yongqin ^a   Chen, Jing M ^a   Miller, John R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digital hemispherical photographs; Exposure; Gap fraction; Leaf area index

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSING; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; FOREST CANOPY; LEAF AREA INDEX;

EID: 28844481898     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2005.09.009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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