Usability of time-lapse digital camera images to detect characteristics of tree phenology in a tropical rainforest

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 32, Issue , 2016, Pages 91-106

  Nagai, Shin ^a   Ichie, Tomoaki ^b   Yoneyama, Aogu ^c   Kobayashi, Hideki ^a   Inoue, Tomoharu ^a   Ishii, Reiichiro ^a,d   Suzuki, Rikie ^a   Itioka, Takao ^e  

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

^b KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c EHIME UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

^e KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Digital camera; Green excess index; Near surface remote sensing; Normalized difference vegetation index; Phenological observations; Tropical rainforest

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLOR; DIGITAL IMAGE; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; RAINFOREST; REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING; TREE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT;

BORNEO;

EID: 84960920033     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2016.01.006     Document Type: Article

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