Measurement of forest canopy structure by a laser plane range-finding method: Improvement of radiative resolution and examples of its application

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 125, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 129-142

  Tanaka, Takafumi ^a   Park, Hotaek ^b   Hattori, Shigeaki ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

3 D structure; Forest canopy; Hemispherical image; LAI; Laser

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; FLUX MEASUREMENT; FOREST CANOPY; LASER METHOD; LEAF AREA INDEX; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 4143100183     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2004.02.008     Document Type: Article

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