Measurement of crown cover and leaf area index using digital cover photography and its application to remote sensing

Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1298-1320

  Pekin, Burak ^a   Macfarlane, Craig ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crown cover; Digital cover photography; Digital single lens reflex camera; Foliage cover; Hemispherical photography; Leaf area index

Indexed keywords

CROWN COVER; DIGITAL COVER PHOTOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SINGLE-LENS-REFLEX CAMERA; HEMISPHERICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; LEAF AREA INDEX;

CAMERAS; REMOTE SENSING;

PHOTOGRAPHY;

EID: 79952043456     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs1041298     Document Type: Article

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