The study of the exclosure effects on the vegetation changes undergrazing and non-grazing conditions in the rangeland areas has particularimportance in the rangeland improvement and revivification projects. Theresearch was accomplished in semi-steppe KhoyBilehvar area, from 1999 to2005. Vegetation cover was annually measured within fixed plots during transact.The results showed that during nine...

Three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction of a tree canopy is an important step in order to measure canopy geometry, such as height, width, volume, and leaf cover area. In this research, binocular stereo vision was used to recover the 3D information of the canopy. Multiple images were taken from different views around the target. The Structure-from-motion (SfM) method was employed to recover the ca...

Results from two nested-grid large-eddy simulations comparing cases with and without a plant canopy are presented. Through comparisons of numerically generated mean and turbulence statistics, the in uence of a plant canopy with a leaf area index of two is shown to modify the air  ow compared with an identical case without plants. Investigations of instantaneous Ž elds and spatial spectra show...

Prosopis laevigata and Mimosa biuncifera are frequently found in arid and semiarid shrublands, but scarce information is available about their influence on plant community structure and soil fertility. We compared plant community structure, diversity and soil nutrients of three semiarid shrubland sites located in Mezquital Valley, Mexico. These sites differ in their dominant species: Site 1 (Bi...

in order to determine the role of plant leaf area in radiation distribution within the canopy and a better understanding of how crops and weeds intercept light a study of the complexity of plants is necessary. the  effect of intercropping on leaf area distribution and dry matter accumulation in corn, soybean and weeds canopy was studied in a  field experiment at a research field of tehran unive...

Light models for vegetation canopies based on the turbid medium analogy are usually limited by the basic assumption of random foliage dispersion in the canopy space. The objective of this paper was to assess the effect of three possible sources of non-randomness in tree canopies on light interception properties. For this purpose, four threedimensional (3-D) digitized trees and four theoretical ...

The effects of Range Management Plans (RMP) on soil and vegetationcharacteristics were studied in Eshtehard rangelands at Alborz province. The parameters ofyield, canopy cover, range condition and trend, bulk density, Organic Matter (OM%),Nitrogen (N), Phosphorous (P) and Potassium (K) were estimated on soil samples in sitesof Ghenzel Cheshmeh as RMP and sanctum of Rahmanyeh village. The data w...

Plant breeding programs and a wide range of plant science applications would greatly benefit from the development of in-field high throughput phenotyping technologies. In this study, a terrestrial LiDAR-based high throughput phenotyping system was developed. A 2D LiDAR was applied to scan plants from overhead in the field, and an RTK-GPS was used to provide spatial coordinates. Precise 3D model...

The potential of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for land-cover mapping applications has since long time been recognized. The main advantage of the SAR is its all-weather mapping capability, which secures the mapping independent of cloud cover that may prevent acquisition by optical and infrared sensors. Furthermore, the backscattering of the radar waves is sensitive to the dielectric properties...