Journal article
Application of a Hypergeometric Model in Simulating Canopy Gap Fraction and BRF for Forest Plantations on Sloping Terrains
Abstract
The influence of tree distribution and slope on canopy gap fraction (GF) and bidirectional reflectance factor (BRF) is shown here to be non-negligible. Trees are often assumed to be randomly distributed in natural forests due to random distribution of natural resources, but this assumption is not valid for forest plantations. A geometric optical model for forest plantations (GOFP) is a geometric optical model for forest plantations on …
Authors
Geng J; Chen JM; Fan W; Tu L; Pang Y; Yuan G; Xu L; Zhu C; Zhang T; Zhang C
Journal
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, Vol. 15, , pp. 2901–2913
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI
10.1109/jstars.2022.3156403
ISSN
1939-1404