Estimation of foliage clumping from the LAI-2000 Plant Canopy Analyzer: effect of view caps

Trees - Structure and Function

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 355-366

  Chianucci, Francesco ^a   Macfarlane, Craig ^b   Pisek, Jan ^c   Cutini, Andrea ^a   Casa, Raffaele ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c TARTU OBSERVATORY   (Estonia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Apparent clumping index; Effective leaf area; Hemispherical photography; Leaf area index; Logarithm averaging

Indexed keywords

PHOTOGRAPHY;

APPARENT CLUMPING INDEX; HEMISPHERICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; LEAF AREA; LEAF AREA INDEX; LOGARITHM AVERAGING;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 84925516194     PISSN: 09311890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00468-014-1115-x     Document Type: Article

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