Defining Canopy Structure
Example 1 - From P. Birnbaum, 2001
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Example 1. Canopy surface relief at the landscape level in a French Guiana
rain forest. Representation of the canopy topography of 20 years old clear-felled
secondary forest plot (0.3 ha), and part of a primary forest plot (1 ha).
Note that X,Y and Z have the same geometric scale in the two samples.
| Spatial Scale | Forest Stand |
| Temporal Scale | Single moment - a "snapshot" in time |
| x-dimension | Preserved |
| y-dimension | Preserved |
| z-dimension | Preserved |
| Time-dimension | Instantaneous |