Literature

Here you can find further reading on the topic. But keep in mind that the use of panoramic imagery in plant biology is a new development, so there is little literature especially in peer-reviewed journals.

• Our manuscript was recently accepted into New Phytologist as a methods study. Here you can find the AAM version: Ribas Costa V., et al. UAS spherical photography for the vertical characterisation of canopy structural traits

• In Winter 2021, Vicent took the first steps in using drone-based spherical imagery to estimate gap fraction and LAI.
  Vicent Agustí Ribas Costa, 2021, Design and validation of a new technique for estimating canopy parameters: UAS-based spherical (360)photography, description of the forest canopy from inside.

• Haozhou Wang’s recent thesis helped inspire Vicent’s work.
  We used Haozhou Wang’s code for Vicent’s work, find it on Github here. Note that our app now uses a different technique/algorithm for the same ends (reprojection from panorama to hemispherical image). Haozhou WANG, 2019, ESTIMATING FOREST ATTRIBUTES FROM SPHERICAL IMAGES, University of New Brunswick

• Here is a fun study that uses panoramic imagery collected with a smartphone to retrieve LAI.
  A Z Andis Arietta, 2021, Estimation of forest canopy structure and understory light using spherical panorama images from smartphone photography, Forestry: An International Journal of Forest Research;, cpab034, https://doi.org/10.1093/forestry/cpab034