Estimating forest leaf area using cover and fullframe fisheye photography: Thinking inside the circle

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 146, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 1-12

  Macfarlane, Craig ^a,b   Grigg, Andrew ^c   Evangelista, Crystelle ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Ensis   (Australia)

^c ALCOA INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Eucalyptus marginata; Foliage cover; Hemispherical photography; Leaf area index; Light extinction coefficient; Stand density

Indexed keywords

EVERGREEN FOREST; FOLIAGE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LEAF AREA INDEX; PHOTOGRAPHY; STAND DYNAMICS; ZENITH ANGLE;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS MARGINATA;

EID: 34547868874     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2007.05.001     Document Type: Article

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