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Vegetation Radiative Transfer Modelling (Nadine Gobron) - PEER

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<strong>Vegetation</strong> ‘Optical Depth’<br />

• Leaf Area Index (LAI) is a quantitative<br />

measure of the amount of live green leaf<br />

material present in the canopy per unit ground<br />

surface.<br />

• It is defined as the total one-sided area of all<br />

leaves in the canopy within a defined region.<br />

N N<br />

LAI = ∑ λ ∑ i = niai<br />

i=<br />

1 i=<br />

1<br />

N = # of layers<br />

a i = leaf surface<br />

n i = # leaves /m2<br />

<strong>Gobron</strong>, N et. al. (1997) ‘A semi-discrete model for the scattering of light by vegetation’, Journal of Geophysical Research,<br />

102, 9431-9446.<br />

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