Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum)
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Solar Altitude
Solar Altitude
“Tree crown transflectance increases as solar altitude rises”
Further Results
Leaf Miner
Leaf Miner
- Horse chestnut leaf-miner is a small moth with caterpillars that feed inside horse chestnut leaves, causing brown or white blotch mines to develop between the leaf veins
- Brown or white blotch mines of Horse chestnut leaves degrade infrared transflectance over 700 – 800 nm
“The presence of horse chestnut leaf-miner leads to the development of blotch mines on leaves, which degrade radiative performance”