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3D canopy imaging...

5/4/2015

 
Last week, the lab took a trip to Harvard forest to image the canopy (or lack thereof) before leaf out using LiDar, thanks to a collaboration with Crystal Schaaf and Francesco Peri from UMASS-Boston. Crystal and Francesco and their team of engineers developed an incredibly fast means to make a 3D scan from laser reflectance, and have deployed this technology in forests all over the world. 
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Our aim is to characterize the forest with and without leaves using LiDar to be able to accurately account for the mass/volume of standing livewood, deadwood, and during the growing season, leaves. These values will then be related to measured real-time fluxes of carbon via eddy covariance and fluorescence, as well as allow for the scaling of leaf-level measurements of photosynthesis and respiration (in leaves and stems). 

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  • Home
  • Research
    • Temperature response of dark respiration: Models and experiments
    • Leaf respiration in the light
    • Leaf-to-canopy scaling of carbon exchange, fluorescence, and phenology
    • Environmental controls on gas exchange in Arctic tundra plants
    • Carbon cycling in Arabidopsis ecotypes
    • Canopy sampling!
  • Publications
  • Teaching & Outreach
  • What's New?
  • Contact & CV
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