Estimation of forest canopy cover: A comparison of field measurement techniques

Silva Fennica

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 577-588

  Korhonen, Lauri ^a   Korhonen, Kari T ^a   Rautiainen, Miina ^a   Stenberg, Pauline ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cajanus tube; Canopy closure; Canopy cover; Digital photographs; Forest canopy; Line intersect sampling; Spherical densiometer

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; INVENTORY CONTROL; SAMPLING;

CANOPY CLOSURE; LINE INTERSECT SAMPLING; SPHERICAL DENSIOMETER;

FORESTRY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST INVENTORY; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LINE TRANSECT; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRECISION;

FORESTRY; SAMPLING;

CAJANUS; CAJANUS CAJAN; PICEA ABIES; PINUS SYLVESTRIS;

EID: 33845874102     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14214/sf.315     Document Type: Article

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