Installed instruments include four subcanopy flux towers and a profiling Doppler lidar on top of the Wind River NEON tower. Improve the understanding of interactions between below-canopy and above-canopy micrometeorological processes in the heterogeneous forest with the effects of drainage and upslope flows.
Provide an extended evaluation of near-infrared digital hemispherical photography (DHP) as a new means of measuring leaf area index (LAI) and wood area index (WAI)
Examine Solar Induced Fluorescence (SIF) along with visible to near infrared reflectance of tallgrass prairie ecosystems using a FLoX (Fluorescence Box, JB Hyperspectral_ mounted on the flux tower. In addition to measurements of leaf level electron transport rate (ETR) and non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) from a MoniPAM Fluorometer.