Identify proper strategy to take FIA crown size into account

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git diary for investigating how scale affects ecological drivers implications on scaling rules and forest structure

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Identify proper strategy to take FIA crown size into account #5

Open MarconiS opened 3 years ago

MarconiS commented 3 years ago

FIA data doesn't provide crown area or diameter as a value. Yet, there are measures like the Crown Ratio, that measure the ratio of a stem covered by the crown and other measures of crown cover. We may need to find a better proxy or other datasets to create a meaningful estimate of crown size for a large set of FIA tree points