Common use of Limiting Factors Clause in Contracts

Limiting Factors. There are different ways to estimate canopy closure or canopy cover (which are not the same) in the field, but they can be time consuming and the estimates they produce don’t necessarily agree with one another or with LIDAR. None of these methods can be said to represent the precise field condition, thus while some are considered by researchers to have greater or lesser accuracy none can really serve as a check on the performance of the others.