Digital repeat photography for phenological research in forest ecosystems

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 159-177

  Sonnentag, Oliver ^a,b   Hufkens, Koen ^c   Teshera Sterne, Cory ^a   Young, Adam M ^d   Friedl, Mark ^c   Braswell, Bobby H ^e   Milliman, Thomas ^e   O'Keefe, John ^f   Richardson, Andrew D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^f HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Canopy development; Canopy greenness; Chromatic coordinates; Digital camera; Excess green; Harvard Forest; Howland Forest; PhenoCam; Phenology; Statistical methodology

Indexed keywords

COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGITAL IMAGE; DIURNAL VARIATION; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LOGISTICS; LONG-TERM CHANGE; NONLINEARITY; PHENOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEASONAL VARIATION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

HARVARD FOREST; HOWLAND FOREST; MAINE; MASSACHUSETTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80054109682     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.09.009     Document Type: Article

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