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An automated procedure for estimating the leaf area index (LAI) of woodland ecosystems using digital imagery, MATLAB programming and its application to an examination of the relationship between remotely sensed and field measurements of LAI

Sigfredo Fuentes A B C , Anthony R. Palmer B , Daniel Taylor B , Melanie Zeppel B , Rhys Whitley B and Derek Eamus B
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A Plant Research Centre, University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, PMB 1 Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia.

B Institute for Water and Environmental Resource Management (IWERM), University of Technology, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia.

C Corresponding author. Email: sigfredo.fuentes@adelaide.edu.au

This paper originates from a presentation at the 5th International Workshop on Functional–Structural Plant Models, Napier, New Zealand, November 2007.

Functional Plant Biology 35(10) 1070-1079 https://doi.org/10.1071/FP08045
Submitted: 5 March 2008  Accepted: 25 September 2008   Published: 11 November 2008



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