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Remote Estimation of the Chlorophyll Concentration of Living Trees Using Laser-induced Fluorescence Imaging Lidar

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Monthly variation in chlorophyll concentration of living ginko tree leaves 65 m away from a system was remotely estimated by a laser-induced fluorescence imaging lidar. The combination of a pulsed laser and a short-time gated CCD using an image intensifier made it possible to monitor the weak fluorescence signal from the ginko tree leaves as an image. By applying the experimental idea that a ratio of intensity of the chlorophyll fluorescence at 740 nm to that at 685 nm showed a linear correlation to the chlorophyll concentration, the fluorescence image of the ginko tree obtained by the lidar was converted to the chlorophyll concentration distribution image.

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  1. Department of Environmental Science, Osaka Women’s University, 21 Daisen-cho, Sakai, 590-0035, Japan

    Satomi Takeda

  2. Department of Information Engineering, Shinshu University, 4-17-1 Wakasato, Nagano, 380-8553, Japan

    Yasunori Saito, Koh-jiro Kurihara, Hiroaki Takahashi, Fumitoshi Kobayashi, Takuya Kawahara & Akio Nomura

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Saito, Y., Kurihara, Kj., Takahashi, H. et al. Remote Estimation of the Chlorophyll Concentration of Living Trees Using Laser-induced Fluorescence Imaging Lidar. OPT REV 9, 37–39 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10043-002-0037-9

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