They found that sensing depth shifts across growth stages, with middle leaves contributing most to reflectance and near-infrared signals most sensitive to planting density. The team also developed a ...

Forests hide critical ecological information beneath dense canopy layers, where traditional imaging techniques struggle to access. This research introduces a breakthrough approach that enables ...

Urban canopy layer: The layer of air interspersed between the buildings, trees and other objects of which a city is composed, and extending upward to the average height of the buildings and trees.

Annals of Botany, Vol. 114, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: Functional-Structural Plant Modelling (September 2014), pp. 677-688 (12 pages) • Background and Aims Maximizing photosynthesis at the canopy level is ...

Scientists have studied competitive growth among trees and their interaction within the forest canopy layer for years. Determining which species of trees are overtopping and/or crowding out other ...

During its “Search On” event this afternoon, Google announced new changes and updates in an effort to better track climate change. Google Maps is adding a new “Fire” layer to its apps as Google’s ...

Google Maps is getting a few new features to help people better understand our burning planet. The first is a new “fire” layer in the main map view, which will let you view the exact boundaries of a ...