Canopy closure, LAI and radiation transfer from airborne LiDAR synthetic images

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 197, Issue , 2014, Pages 158-168

  Moeser, D ^a   Roubinek, J ^a   Schleppi, P ^b   Morsdorf, F ^c   Jonas, T ^a  

^a WSL INSTITUTE FOR SNOW AND AVALANCHE RESEARCH SLF   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Aerial LiDAR; Canopy closure; Forest snow hydrology; Hemispherical photography; LAI; Radiation transfer; Synthetic images

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CANOPY; CLEAR SKY; FOREST CANOPY; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIDAR; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; SNOW; SOLAR RADIATION; WATER AVAILABILITY;

EID: 84904908663     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2014.06.008     Document Type: Article

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