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SamsaRaLight: Forest light interception and radiation simulation

Description

SamsaRaLight is an R package for simulating forest stand light interception, energy balance and radiation transfer using spatially explicit tree crowns, sensors and grid cells.

Details

The package provides tools to:

• Build forest stands with trees, cells and sensors

• Run ray-tracing based light simulations

• Compute tree, cell and sensor energy variables

• Summarize and visualize simulation outputs

Author(s)

Maintainer: Natheo Beauchamp [e-mail] (ORCID) (R package developer)

Authors:

• Gauthier Ligot [e-mail] (ORCID) (Java Capsis developer and algorithm improvement)

• Francois de Coligny [e-mail] (ORCID) (Java Capsis developer)

• Maxime Jaunatre [e-mail] (ORCID) (R package support developer)

• Benoit Courbaud [e-mail] (ORCID) (Algorithm and theory creator) [copyright holder]

See Also

Useful links:

• https://natheob.github.io/SamsaRaLight/

• Report bugs at https://github.com/natheob/SamsaRaLight/issues/

SamsaRaLight documentation built on April 16, 2026, 5:08 p.m.