A Methodology for modelling canopy structure: An exploratory analysis in the tall wet eucalypt forests of southern Tasmania

Forests

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 4-24

  Scanlan, Ian ^a   McElhinny, Chris ^a   Turner, Perpetua ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

AutoCAD; Foliage; Spatial models; Stratification; Tree crown

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRIC RELATIONSHIP; AUTOCAD; CANOPY MODEL; CANOPY STRUCTURE; EUCALYPT FOREST; EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; FIELD DATA; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FOREST CANOPY STRUCTURE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FORESTED LANDSCAPES; GROUND BASED; RELATIVE POSITIONS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; RESEARCH TOOLS; SPATIAL MODELS; STEM DIAMETER; STRUCTURAL VARIATIONS; TECHNICAL DRAWING; TREE CROWNS; VERTICAL STRUCTURES;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; REMOTE SENSING; THERMAL STRATIFICATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

ALLOMETRY; ANGIOSPERM; FOREST CANOPY; METHODOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

FORESTRY; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING; STRATIFICATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL DESIGN;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 80855166460     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f1010004     Document Type: Article

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