Digital cover photography for estimating Leaf area index (LAI) in apple trees using a variable light extinction coefficient

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 2860-2872

  Poblete Echeverría, Carlos ^a   Fuentes, Sigfredo ^b   Ortega Farias, Samuel ^a   Gonzalez Talice, Jaime ^a   Yuri, Jose Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE TALCA   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Clumping index; Gap fraction; Light intercepted by the canopy; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL CAMERAS; ERRORS; EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS; FORESTRY; FRUITS; LIGHT EXTINCTION; ORCHARDS; PHOTOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING;

BIO-PHYSICAL VARIABLES; CLUMPING INDEX; DESTRUCTIVE MEASUREMENTS; GAP FRACTION; INSTANTANEOUS MEASUREMENT; LIGHT EXTINCTION COEFFICIENTS; SITE SPECIFIC CALIBRATION; TRANSMITTED RADIATION;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

EID: 84922022637     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s150202860     Document Type: Article

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