The purpose of this field trip is to allow students to repeat observations at the AIRS station along 6 fixed transects at AIRS, estimating canopy height, measuring species composition, surface albedo and temperature. They will use digital cameras to quantitatively measure fractional cover using a CCD camera and surface temperature with a FLIR. Field measures are a repeat of observations made in 2008, 2011, 2013, 2015, and earlier in 2017 providing a time series of change

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