Can the plant area index of a submerged vegetation canopy be estimated using digital hemispherical photography?

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 192-193, Issue , 2014, Pages 69-77

  Zhao, Dehua ^a   Lv, Meiting ^a   Wang, Penghe ^a   Yang, Tangwu ^a   An, Shuqing ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Digital hemispherical photography; Exposure; Leaf area index; Photographic distance; Submerged vegetation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AQUATIC COMMUNITY; DIGITAL MAPPING; ESTIMATION METHOD; LEAF AREA INDEX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SUBMERGED VEGETATION;

EID: 84897076627     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.03.008     Document Type: Article

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