Understory density can have impacts on such military activities as cross-country mobility, bivouac, cover and concealment, and line of sight Airborne sensors provide a fairly good mechanism for measuring the overstory: crown diameter and tree height. The nature and characteristics of the understory, however, must be subjectively estimated by the analyst. This current work focused on the development of a model to predict understory plant densities from measurable overstory characteristics. ...
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