Leaf area index (LAI) is a critical vegetation structural variable and is essential in the
feedback of vegetation to the climate system. The advancement of the global Earth …

Canopy clumping index (CI) characterizes the spatial distribution of leaves or needles within
a vegetation canopy. CI is critical in determining the canopy radiation transfer …

Traditionally, forest measurement textbooks have been concerned primarily with
determination of the amounts of the principal commercial product of forests, wood. This was …

The study shows that leaf area index (LAI), leaf chlorophyll content (LCC) and canopy
chlorophyll content (CCC) can be mapped in a heterogeneous Mediterranean grassland …

Abstract Characterization of ecosystem structure, diversity, and function is increasingly
desired at finer spatial and temporal scales than have been derived in the past. Many …

Forest conservation has become one of the most important environmental issues currently
facing humanity, as a result of widespread deforestation and forest degradation. Pressures …

Vegetation structure parameters are key elements in the study of ecosystem functioning and
global scale ecosystemic interactions. The detailed retrieval of many of these parameters by …

This study systematically evaluated linear predictive models between vegetation indices (VI)
derived from radiometrically corrected airborne imaging spectrometer (HyMap) data and …

A novel methodology is proposed to reconstruct 3D tree architectures from terrestrial LiDAR
(TLiDAR) scans. The methodology is robust and relatively insensitive to wind-and occlusion …

The objective of this paper is to quantitatively validate the global MODIS and CYCLOPES
leaf area index (LAI) products using a global LAI field measurement database created on the …