Estimating leaf area distribution in savanna trees from terrestrial LiDAR measurements

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 151, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1252-1266

  Béland, Martin ^a   Widlowski, Jean Luc ^b   Fournier, Richard A ^a   Côté, Jean François ^a,c   Verstraete, Michel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D leaf area distribution; Leaf area density (LAD); Leaf area index (LAI); Occlusion effects; Savanna; Terrestrial liDAR scanner; Voxel

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; LASER METHOD; LEAF AREA; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIDAR; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PARAMETERIZATION; PIXEL; SAVANNA; SCANNER; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 79959618957     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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