Influence of woody tissue and leaf clumping on vertically resolved leaf area index and angular gap probability estimates

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 340, Issue , 2015, Pages 103-113

  Piayda, Arndt ^a   Dubbert, Maren ^b   Werner, Christiane ^b   Vaz Correia, Alexandre ^c   Pereira, Joao Santos ^c   Cuntz, Matthias ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE AGRONOMIA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Clumping index; Digital cover photography; Gap fraction; LAI 2000; Leaf area index; Woody tissue

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; TISSUE; VEGETATION;

CLUMPING INDEX; GAP FRACTION; GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS; IMAGE ANALYSIS ALGORITHMS; LAI-2000; LEAF AREA INDEX; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; SOIL VEGETATION ATMOSPHERES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ALGORITHM; DATA QUALITY; DECIDUOUS TREE; DIGITAL IMAGE; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; HEIGHT DETERMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEAF AREA INDEX; PHOTOGRAPHY; SEMIARID REGION; WOOD;

PORTUGAL;

QUERCUS SUBER;

EID: 84921059300     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.12.026     Document Type: Article

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