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It is important to properly understand the light environment for improving plant production efficiency in a plant factory. Plant canopy structure affects the photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) distribution, thereby strongly affecting plant growth. Therefore, it is important to understand the canopy structure and control it in some cases for plant production. Indices for evaluating the canopy structure include extinction coefficient, leaf area index (LAI) or leaf area density (LAD) distribution, and leaf angle distribution. LAI is an important index not only for plant growth but also for evaluating the light environment of the canopy. Several indirect but nondestructive ways for LAI estimation have been proposed, including methods using plant canopy analyzer (PCA), hemispherical photography, terrestrial laser scanner (TLS), spectral reflectance, and image analysis. Moreover, the canopy surface has a PPFD distribution because of its variation in leaf inclination and orientation. A simple method for evaluating PPFD distribution on plant canopy surface using the reflection image of canopy was proposed and successfully constructed PPFD histograms of the canopy surface of several plant species under both natural and artificial lights.
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Ibaraki, Y. (2016). Evaluation of Spatial Light Environment and Plant Canopy Structure. In: Kozai, T., Fujiwara, K., Runkle, E. (eds) LED Lighting for Urban Agriculture. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1848-0_10
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