Quantifying the impact of woody material on leaf area index estimation from hemispherical photography using 3D canopy simulations

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 226-227, Issue , 2016, Pages 1-12

  Woodgate, William ^a,b,c   Armston, John D ^d,e   Disney, Mathias ^f,g   Jones, Simon D ^a,b   Suarez, Lola ^a,b   Hill, Michael J ^h   Wilkes, Phil ^a,b,f,i   Soto Berelov, Mariela ^a,b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Andrew Haywood is with the Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alpha; Clumping; Leaf area index; Plant area index; Projection function; Woody correction

Indexed keywords

BIOPHYSICS; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; EVERGREEN FOREST; LEAF AREA INDEX; MODEL VALIDATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WOODY DEBRIS; ZENITH ANGLE;

EID: 84976321297     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2016.05.009     Document Type: Article

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