Title

Title	Effectiveness of a near infra-red camera in detecting photosynthesis of lichens in the National Botanic Garden, Namibia. (Bachelor Honors thesis)	?
Author	Leena Naftal	?
Abstract	Lichens in Namibia covers both the savanna and the Namib Desert. Lichens of the savanna are poorly studied. Lichens are pioneers, occupying the ecological niche that most high plants are not able to inhabit. They are important for the environment because they are good indicator of air pollution. With the growing use of digital cameras that allow us to monitor vegetation changes, photosynthetic activities of lichens can be monitored using the near infra-red camera and vegetation indices can be calculated. The near infra-red camera was tested on three species of lichens in the National Botanical Garden. Time series images were taken at the interval of 20 minutes, and the images were processed in software QGis. The photosynthetic activities in the lichens were captured and shows a decrease from the time of wetting to the time when the lichens were drying up.	?

Dataset

Document Reference Date Type	creation	?
Date	2018-04-30	?
Language	English	?
Online Linkage		?
Associated project	SASSCAL (Phase 1)	?
Subproject	159 Strengthening a regional Biodiversity Observation Network in the region	?

Dataset Classification

Type	PDF	?
Category	thesis	?

Geographic Location

Geographic Description

Namibia

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Metadata

Metadata Contact Person	Strohbach, Ben, Dr	?
Metadata Date Stamp	2019-10-03	?

Identifier

Internal identifier

sdp_doc_documents_6641 (Link)