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Mapping Individual Plants with a Field‐Portable Digitizer
Author(s) -
Mack Richard N.,
Pyke David A.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.144
H-Index - 294
eISSN - 1939-9170
pISSN - 0012-9658
DOI - 10.2307/1936063
Subject(s) - quadrant (abdomen) , canopy , measure (data warehouse) , remote sensing , field (mathematics) , unit (ring theory) , environmental science , ecology , computer science , geography , biology , mathematics , database , medicine , mathematics education , pathology , pure mathematics
A field—portable sonic digitizer has been developed for use in conducting rapid censuses of large numbers of small plants through time. The x, y coordinates of all plants (to the nearest 1 mm) within a 6.5 x 6.5 dm quadrant can be rapidly recorded onto a paper tape. Additional information for each plant may be recorded simultaneously onto the paper tape with a numeric keyboard. The unit also may be used to measure plant canopy coverage and map soil surface features.
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