Detecting seasonal change of broad-leaved woody canopy leaf area density profile using 3D portable LIDAR imaging
Fumiki Hosoi A and Kenji Omasa A BA Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8657, Japan.
B Corresponding author. Email: aomasa@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
This paper originates from a presentation at the 1st International Plant Phenomics Symposium, Canberra, Australia, April 2009.
Functional Plant Biology 36(11) 998-1005 https://doi.org/10.1071/FP09113
Submitted: 15 May 2009 Accepted: 16 September 2009 Published: 5 November 2009
Abstract
Seasonal change of vertical leaf area density (LAD) profiles of woody canopy broad-leaved trees (Zelkova serrata [Thunberg] Makino) was estimated using 3D portable scanning light detection and ranging (LIDAR) imaging. First, 3D point cloud data for the canopy were collected using a portable LIDAR in spring, summer, autumn and winter. For data collection, the canopy was evenly scanned by the LIDAR from three positions 10 m above the ground. Next, the vertical LAD profile in each season was computed from the LIDAR data using the voxel-based canopy profiling (VCP) method. For the computation, non-photosynthetic tissues were eliminated using the LIDAR data obtained during winter. Influence of leaf inclination angle (LIA) on LAD estimation was corrected by LIA data measured by a high-resolution portable scanning LIDAR. The resultant profiles showed that LAD values tended to increase at the upper canopy from spring to summer and decrease at the middle and lower canopy from summer to autumn. Moreover, LIDAR-derived LIA distributions were compared among different seasons. LIA showed an even distribution in spring but changed to a planophile distribution in summer. In autumn, the angles in the <30° class decreased and those between the 30 and 40°classes increased.
Additional keywords: Japanese zelkova, leaf area index (LAI), leaf inclination angle (LIA), voxel-based canopy profiling (VCP).
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