Utilization of ground-based digital photography for the evaluation of seasonal changes in the aboveground green biomass and foliage phenology in a grassland ecosystem

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 25, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-9

  Inoue, Tomoharu ^a,b   Nagai, Shin ^b   Kobayashi, Hideki ^b   Koizumi, Hiroshi ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomass estimation; Digital camera; Digital repeat photography; Phenological observations; RGB

Indexed keywords

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; DIGITAL IMAGE; FOLIAGE; GRASSLAND; PHENOLOGY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; VEGETATION INDEX;

JAPAN;

EID: 84908689234     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.09.013     Document Type: Article

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