Exploring trees in three dimensions: VoxR, a novel voxel-based R package dedicated to analysing the complex arrangement of tree crowns

Annals of Botany

Volumn 121, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 589-601

  Lecigne, Bastien ^a   Delagrange, Sylvain ^b   Messier, Christian ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN OUTAOUAIS   (Canada)

Author keywords

crown density; crown volume; space exploration; T LiDAR; terrestrial laser scanner; tree architecture; tree biomass organization; tree form; voxel

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIOMASS; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; SCANNER; SIMULATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ALGORITHM; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; LASER; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE; THEORETICAL MODEL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREE;

ALGORITHMS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LASERS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SOFTWARE; TREES;

EID: 85036574424     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcx095     Document Type: Article

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