Python tools have been developed for assessing forest vertical structural complexity. The code is ForestLAS. The following documents form the protocols and guidelines:
- Establishing a monitoring plot
- Recording physical and biotic characteristics
- Characterisation of large trees
- Characterisation of small trees
- Understorey vegetation and ground cover parameters
- Leaf area index measurement
- Measuring coarse woody debris and stumps
- Measuring post-fire forest recovery
- Leaf sampling and Leaf processing
- Leaf spectra measurement
- Field spectroscopy
- Use of Rapideye TOA reflectance imagery for mapping vegetation fractional cover
