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Evaluation of the AGDISP Canopy Model

Published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan www.asabe.org

Citation:  2011 Louisville, Kentucky, August 7-10, 2011  1110860.(doi:10.13031/2013.37341)
Authors:   Jennifer C Grace, Brian Richardson, Stefan Gous, Harold W Thistle, Milton E Teske
Keywords:   AGDISP, spray deposition, canopy structure, crown structure, leaf area index, leaf angle distribution, clumping

Currently the AGDISP model has two possible ways for describing plant canopy structure. The LAI model assumes that the foliage is homogeneously distributed in a horizontal plane, and requires leaf area index and vertical foliage distribution as input. The other approach, the Story model, assumes the plant canopy is made up of a given number of identical plants with their crowns made up of a number of cylindrical layers. The probability of penetration through each cylinder is required.

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