Simulation of statistical characteristics of gap distribution in forest stands

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 895-905

  Nilson, Tiit ^a   Kuusk, Andres ^a   Lang, Mait ^a,b   Pisek, Jan ^a   Kodar, Ave ^c  

^a TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^b ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Clumping index; Correlation; Gap fraction; LAI 2000; Plant canopy analysers

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GAP DYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEAF AREA INDEX; MAGNITUDE; MATRIX; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; STAND STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ESTONIA;

EID: 79955621140     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.02.009     Document Type: Article

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