The relationship between canopy structure and light transmission to the forest floor is of particular interest for studying the effects of succession, timber harvest, and silviculture prescriptions on understory plants and trees. Indirect measurements of leaf area index (LAI) estimated using gap fraction analysis with linear and hemispheric sensors have been commonly used to assess radiation in...

The paper investigates methodology comparisons for retrieving effective leaf area index (LAI) using digital hemispherical photograph(DHP) in rice canopy. A set of self-making DHP instrument equipped with a fish-eye Len is utilized to acquire DHP in rice canopy, and some self-developing DHP processing procedures are utilized to pre-process DHP and extract effective LAI from DHP (LAIDHP) rapidly....

Validation of Leaf Area Index (LAI) derived from moderate resolution remote sensing observations generally involves optical technique to measure ground LAI. As the current validation datasets are derived using multiple optical retrieval techniques, assessment of the consistency between these techniques is required. In this study the effective Plant Area Index (PAIeff) retrievals by three major ...

Validation of Leaf Area Index (LAI) derived from moderate resolution remote sensing observations generally involves optical technique to measure ground LAI. As the current validation datasets are derived using multiple optical retrieval techniques, assessment of the consistency between these techniques is required. In this study the effective Plant Area Index (PAIeff) retrievals by three major ...

Retrievals of LAI from inversion of canopy radiometric measurements, using the Li-Cor LAI-2000 Plant Canopy Analyzer and the Decagon AccuPar Ceptometer (a linear quantum probe) were analyzed and compared. Field data were collected from 34 sites in the boreal forest of interior Alaska, and sensitivity tests were conducted to estimate the effect of a variety of measurement conditions on the LAI r...