Forest understory soil temperatures and heat flux calculated using a Fourier model and scaled using a digital camera

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 150, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 640-649

  Graham, Eric A ^a   Lam, Yeung ^b   Yuen, Eric M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Engineering IV   (United States)

Author keywords

Image processing; Infrared thermometer; Multiscale sensing; Remote sensing; Soil temperature; Sunflecks

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL IMAGE; ENERGY BALANCE; FOREST CANOPY; FOURIER TRANSFORM; HEAT FLUX; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOLAR RADIATION; UNDERSTORY;

EID: 77949491285     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.02.005     Document Type: Article

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