Applying GreenLab Model to Adult Chinese Pine Trees with Topology Simplification

Author

Guo, Hong ; Letort, Veronique ; Lei, Xiangdong ; Lu, Yuanchang ; De Reffye, Philippe

Author_Institution

Res. Inst. of Forest Resource Inf. Tech., Chinese Acad. of Forestry, Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

9-13 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

61

Abstract

This paper applied the functional structural model GreenLab to adult Chinese pine trees (pinus tabulaeformis Carr.). Basic hypotheses of the model were validated such as constant allometry rules, relative sink relationships and topology simplification. To overcome the limitations raised by the complexity of tree structure for collecting experimental data, a simplified pattern of tree description was introduced and compared with the complete pattern for the computational time and the parameter accuracy. The results showed that this simplified pattern was well adapted to fit adult trees with GreenLab.

Keywords

agriculture; topology; GreenLab model; adult Chinese pine trees; computational time; constant allometry rules; functional structural model; pinus tabulaeformis Carr; relative sink relationships; topology simplification; tree structure; Biomass; Computational modeling; Computer architecture; Forestry; Laboratories; Mathematical model; Mathematics; Production; Topology; Tree data structures; functional structural model; pinus tabulaeformis Carr; plant allometry; topological structure;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plant Growth Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and Applications (PMA), 2009 Third International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-7695-3988-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6330-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PMA.2009.24

Filename

5475017