GAI estimates of row crops from downward looking digital photos taken perpendicular to rows at 57.5° zenith angle: Theoretical considerations based on 3D architecture models and application to wheat crops

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 150, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1393-1401

  Baret, F ^a   de Solan, B ^a,b   Lopez Lozano, R ^a   Ma, Kai ^a   Weiss, M ^a  

^a UAPV   (France)

^b ARVALIS Institut du Vegetal   (France)

Author keywords

3D plant architecture model; Digital photography; Gap fraction; Leaf area index; Row crops; Wheat

Indexed keywords

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; CANOPY GAP; CEREAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CULTIVAR; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GENOTYPE; HEIGHT; HERB; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOGRAPHY; SENSOR; SOYBEAN; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; ZENITH ANGLE;

GLYCINE MAX; HELIANTHUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 77956779057     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2010.04.011     Document Type: Article

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