Canopy structure and radiative transfer

A quantitative study of the architecture of both a stand and individual plant with its organs constitutes a fundamental task of phytometry.. . . solar radiation in a plant stand is a highly complicated process dependent both on incident radiation and on the optical and geometrical properties of the vegetation.For this reason a more specified and generalized concept of a turbid medium was proposed, according to which a stand was treated as a plate turbid anisotropic medium homogeneous in horizontal plane in terms of statistics.Juhan Ross (1981)