Assessment of defoliation during a pine sawfly outbreak: Calibration of airborne laser scanning data with hemispherical photography

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 250, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 9-16

  Hanssen, Kjersti Holt ^a   Solberg, Svein ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Defoliation; Insect attack; LAI; LIDAR; Optical LAI determination; Pine sawfly

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOGRAPHY;

INSECT ATTACK; LASER SCANNING DATA; LEAF AREA INDEX (LAI); OPTICAL LAI DETERMINATION; PINE SAWFLY;

FORESTRY;

CALIBRATION; CONIFEROUS FOREST; FLY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LEAF AREA INDEX; LIDAR; MEASUREMENT METHOD; OPTICAL METHOD; PEST OUTBREAK; PHOTOGRAPHY;

FORESTRY; PHOTOGRAPHY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

CONIFEROPHYTA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 34548426879     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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