Hemispherical photography, also known as canopy photography, is a technique to estimate solar radiation and characterize plant canopy geometry using photographs taken looking upward through an extreme
Hemispherical photograph used to study microclimate of winter roosting habitat at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, Mexico.
Hemispherical photograph with sunpath overlay from a closed canopy reach of San Francisquito Creek, San Francisco Peninsula, California, used for studies of steelhead trout habitat.
Hemispherical photograph from an open canopy reach of San Francisquito Creek. Overlay of the sunpath enables calculation of solar exposure as it influences water temperature.
Hemispherical photograph used to study LAI, canopy closure, or other canopy indices.
A whole sky camera is a specialized camera used in meteorology and astronomy for capturing a photograph of the entire sky. Another application is that of hemispherical photography to study plant canop
Hemispherical photography
…View factor Whole sky camera Anderson, M.C. 1964. Studies of the woodland light climate I. The photographic computation of light condition. Journal of Ecology 52:27-41…
Mueller whole sky camera (ca. 1905) modified by Fassig. Reported in the 1915 issue of Monthly Weather Review
Simple whole sky camera based on Canon A75 located north of Kennedy Space Center during meteorological experiment close to the MCR radar
Whole sky camera based on reflecting (mirror) dome with sun tracker. Constructed by K. Markowicz
Night sky camera mounted on the roof of an observatory