Measurement methods and variability assessment of the Norway spruce total leaf area: Implications for remote sensing

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 111-121

  Homolová, Lucie ^a,b   Lukeš, Petr ^c   Malenovský, Zbyněk ^b,d   Lhotáková, Zuzana ^e   Kaplan, Věroslav ^c   Hanuš, Jan ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll content; Conversion factor; Picea abies; Projected leaf area; Remote sensing; Total leaf area

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; ECOLOGY; ERRORS; FORESTRY; GEOMETRY; NEEDLES; PLANTS (BOTANY);

CHLOROPHYLL CONTENTS; CONVERSION FACTOR; LEAF AREA; PICEA ABIES; TOTAL LEAF AREA;

REMOTE SENSING;

CHLOROPHYLLS; CONVERSION; NEEDLES; PICEA ABIES; REMOTE SENSING;

PICEA; PICEA ABIES;

EID: 84872493909     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-012-0774-8     Document Type: Article

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