How light reflects on leaves may help researchers identify dying forests

Early detection of declining forest health is critical for the timely intervention and treatment of droughted and diseased ...
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Developmental changes in the reflectance spectra of temperate deciduous tree leaves and implications for thermal emissivity and leaf temperature

• Leaf optical properties impact leaf energy balance and thus leaf temperature. The effect of leaf development on mid-infrared (MIR) reflectance, and hence thermal emissivity, has not been ...
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Linking leaf traits to light: A new framework for predicting canopy optical behavior

(A). Light was absorbed by a leaf and reflected and transmitted from the leaf. The reflect light includes specular and diffuse portion, and this reflect light distribution can be modeled with BRDF (B) ...
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Leaf-reading tool could replace DNA analysis for plant identification

Ordinarily, if you want to check if two plants of the same species come from genetically different populations, you have to analyze their DNA. A new study, however, has found that an analysis of the ...
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Leaf reflectance, leaf transmittance and sky irradiance, at four sites in Panama, 2022

Davidson, Kenneth, Lamour, Julien, Calderon, Osvaldo, Zambrano, Alfonso, Wright, Cynthia, and Ely, Kim. 2022. [Dataset] Leaf reflectance, leaf transmittance and sky ...