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- Title
Measurement of Crown Cover and Leaf Area Index Using Digital Cover Photography and Its Application to Remote Sensing.
- Authors
Pekin, Burak; Macfarlane, Craig
- Abstract
Digital cover photography (DCP) is a high resolution, vertical field-of-view method for ground-based estimation of forest metrics, and has advantages over fisheye sensors owing to its ease of application and high accuracy. We conducted the first thorough technical appraisal of DCP using both single-lens-reflex (DSLR) and point-and-shoot cameras and concluded that differences result primarily from the better quality optics available for the DSLR camera. File compression, image size and ISO equivalence had little or no effect on estimates of forest metrics. We discuss the application of DCP for ground truthing of remotely sensed canopy metrics, and highlight its strengths over fisheye photography for testing and calibration of vertical field-of-view remote sensing.
- Subjects
DIGITAL photography; VEGETATION monitoring; FORESTS &; forestry; FOREST canopies; REMOTE sensing; FOREST biomass; FOREST canopy gaps
- Publication
Remote Sensing, 2009, Vol 1, Issue 4, p1298
- ISSN
2072-4292
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/rs1041298