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Inventory Classification
  • Sample Measurement and Analysis
  • Field Deployable
  • Space

The Holland Scientific Crop Circle Phenom represents a new remote sensing tool for measuring the radiative transfer and biophysical characters of plant canopies.

University Tag Number: 
196172
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  • Joel Ransom
Location
Waldron Hall
Room Number: 
214B
Inventory Classification
  • Sample Measurement and Analysis
  • Field Deployable
  • Space

Leaf Area Index (LAI) is the ratio of foliage area to ground area. The LAI-2200 computes LAI from measurements made above the canopy and below the canopy, which are used to determine canopy light interception at 5 angles. These data are fit to a well-established model of radiative transfer inside vegetative canopies to compute leaf area index, mean tilt angle, and canopy gap fraction.

The benefits of the LAI-2200 over other methods such as ceptometry and hemispherical photography are that it:

Makes few assumptions about canopy structure.

University Tag Number: 
196191
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  • Xinhua Jia
Location
Hultz Hall
Room Number: 
235

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