This book presents practical information about hemispherical photography from the perspectives of field data acquisition, image processing and information retrieval methods.

Preface.- Contributor biographer data.- Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Solar radiation in forests: theory for hemispherical photography.- Chapter 3. Measurement of forest structure with hemispherical photography.- Chapter 4. Acquiring hemispherical photographs in forest environments: from planning to archiving photographs.- Chapter 5. Image analysis of hemispherical photographs, algorithms and calculations.- Chapter 6. View angle-dependent clumping indices for indirect LAI estimation.- Chapter 7. Comparison of software tools for analysis of hemispherical photographs.- Chapter 8. Hemispherical photography in support of forest inventory and silviculture.- Chapter 9. Canopy architecture models in support of methods using hemispherical photography.- Chapter 10. Hemispherical photography for forestry: conclusions, applications, limitations, and implementation perspectives.- Index.