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Canopy cover estimates were compared between hemispherical and cover phtoography using artificial, real and modelled forest canopies. Results indicated that cover photography is a robust method to estimate canopy cover, whose accuracy was not affected by both actual canopy cover and mean gap size.
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Cover photography can be used as a standard tool to describe canopy cover in forest inventory. The method is simple, easily replicable, and not sensitive to image acquisition and processing, being therefore highlsy suitable for comparable studies and routine measurements and monitoring of forest canopy cover.
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This page is a summary of: A note on estimating canopy cover from digital cover and hemispherical photography, Silva Fennica, January 2016, Finnish Society of Forest Science,
DOI: 10.14214/sf.1518.
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