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Canopy Cover Estimation

Canopy cover, or canopy closure, is the proportion of ground area covered by tree crowns when viewed from above, typically expressed as a percentage. Formalized by Jennings and colleagues in pioneering work on tropical forest structure, canopy cover estimation employs multiple methods—from field-based ocular assessment to sophisticated remote sensing and terrestrial LiDAR—providing essential data on forest structure, light availability, and habitat characteristics relevant to ecology, silviculture, and climate research.

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Forest Canopy Closure Assessment and Overstory Quantification
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / forestry
  • Jennings, S. B., Brown, N. D., & Sheil, D. (2000). Assessing Forest Canopies and Understorey Illumination: Methods and Applications. Forest Ecology and Management, 129(1-3), 219–243. · URL
  • Fiala, A. C. S., Garman, S. L., & Whissel, A. N. (2006). Comparison of Five Small-Footprint LiDAR Systems. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, 72(3), 339–354. · URL
  • Moeslund, J. E., Arge, L., Bøcher, P. K., et al. (2013). Topographically Induced Variation in Vegetation Predicts Forest Growth. Journal of Biogeography, 40(12), 2379–2391. · URL
  • Cutler, D. R., Edwards, T. C., Beard, K. H., et al. (2012). Random Forests for Classification in Ecology. Ecology, 88(11), 2783–2792. · DOI 10.1890/07-0539.1
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