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    • LAI (Indirect): Light Wand - KSU (FIFE)

    Metadata Updated: April 10, 2026

    The prairie is inherently variable and large numbers of samples are needed to obtain reliable estimates of the prairie agronomic characteristics. For the Indirect Leaf Area Index Obtained from the KSU Light Wand Study a limited number of destructive samples were supplemented by large numbers of rapid non-destructive estimates. For the non-destructive measurements the LI-COR Inc. LAI-2000 Plant Canopy Analyzer (light-wand) was used. This instrument measures transmittance of the canopy in the blue region of the spectrum, at five different zenith angles. These measurements were inverted to provide estimates of leaf area index, and mean inclination angle of the leaves to the zenith. Verification studies conducted by LI-COR Inc. indicated that the LAI-2000 Canopy Analyzer measurements were generally within 15% of values obtained by destructive sampling and measurement with a leaf area meter. As a rough guess even the destructive measurements are accurate only to within about 25% of the true sample leaf area value. In the opinion of the study team, the non-destructive measurements with the LAI-2000 are as good as the destructive measurements, and provide a better estimate of the site mean, because many more non-destructive measurement can be made.

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    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026

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    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date April 11, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date April 10, 2026
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10.3334/ORNLDAAC/43
    Data Last Modified 2026-04-06
    Category Earth Science
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 9b696ac7-d504-4a9c-bd13-6dadcf96b7a8
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
    Old Spatial {"WestBoundingCoordinate":-96.61,"NorthBoundingCoordinate":39.1,"EastBoundingCoordinate":-96.45,"SouthBoundingCoordinate":38.98},"CARTESIAN"
    Program Code 026:000
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash a0c18238728ac7008d79b41a19efc31a4174d1ff845c9f0ec7b3ea2c11f6aebe
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1988-06-29/1989-10-31

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