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Canopeo Toolkit
Fractional green canopy cover

Measure green canopy cover from field photos.

This toolkit provides lightweight applications for quantifying fractional green canopy cover from downward-facing images — built for researchers, extension agents, and educators who need a reliable, fast, and fully offline tools to analyze hundreds of images in the office or in the field. In all these tools, images remain on your device.

Canopeo-Field

Ideal for smartphone use. Add comments and track crop/soil conditions.

Canopeo-Drag&Drop

Batch analysis in your browser, extracts metadata and creates overlay masks.

Windows 10 / 11

Ideal for desktop workflows on Windows and larger datasets.

macOS 10.15 or later

Ideal for desktop workflows on macOS and larger datasets.

Canopeo was introduced in: Patrignani, A., & Ochsner, T. E. (2015). Canopeo: A powerful new tool for measuring fractional green canopy cover. Agronomy Journal, 107(6), 2312–2320. doi.org/10.2134/agronj15.0150

Fully offline batch processing Analyze unlimited images of any size. No account, no cloud — your data stays private
Built-in inspection Adjustable ratio & opacity, and multiple mask colors to inspect classification before running a full batch
Multiple outputs Tabular, binary masks, and blended overlays
Speed toggle Process at full resolution or ~1 MPx for fast batches
Image metadata Filename, timestamp, GPS coordinates, and device
Noise filtering Removes small isolated specks from the classification