Effects of image quality, size and camera type on forest light environment estimates using digital hemispherical photography

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 126, Issue 1-2, 2004, Pages 89-97

  Inoue, Akio ^a   Yamamoto, Kazukiyo ^b   Mizoue, Nobuya ^c   Kawahara, Yuichiro ^c  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Camera type; Digital camera; Hemispherical photography; Image quality; Image size; Light environment

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST CANOPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 7044220760     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2004.06.002     Document Type: Article

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