Overview
- Offers a single source for the theory, methods and applications of hemispherical photography (HP) for forestry
- Explains the complex theory for the use of HP to estimate forest structure or light regime
- Proposes several methodology chapters to comprehensively guide the potential users
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Managing Forest Ecosystems (MAFE, volume 28)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents practical information about hemispherical photography from the perspectives of field data acquisition, image processing and information retrieval methods.
This book is organized into three sections. The first section describes what is hemispherical photography and what are the fundamental elements of forest structure and light interactions within the forest canopy. The second section provides practical information about the equipment, procedures and tools for procuring, processing and analyzing hemispherical photographs. Armed with this information, the third section describes several applications of hemispherical photographs to forestry and natural resource assessment. The book concludes with a discussion about modelling tools and future directions of this rapidly growing field. There is currently no information source on the market that has this comprehensive range of topics combined in a single book. The book will appeal to academics, graduate students, natural resource professionals and researchers alike.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hemispherical Photography in Forest Science: Theory, Methods, Applications
Editors: Richard A. Fournier, Ronald J. Hall
Series Title: Managing Forest Ecosystems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1098-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1096-9Published: 07 June 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-1487-5Published: 15 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-94-024-1098-3Published: 11 May 2017
Series ISSN: 1568-1319
Series E-ISSN: 2352-3956
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 306
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Forestry, Image Processing and Computer Vision, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Natural Resources