Remote sensing of the distribution and abundance of host species for spruce budworm in Northern Minnesota and Ontario

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 3971-3982

  Wolter, Peter T ^a   Townsend, Philip A ^a   Sturtevant, Brian R ^b   Kingdon, Clayton C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest structure; Landsat; Minnesota; Multi temporal; Ontario; Partial least squares regression; Spruce budworm

Indexed keywords

FOOD PROCESSING; FORESTRY; PERSONNEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS;

AND MODELING; BASAL AREA; CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; FOREST STRUCTURE; GROUND DATA; GROUND TRUTH; LANDSAT; LANDSAT DATA; LANDSCAPE SCALES; MINNESOTA; MULTI-TEMPORAL; ONTARIO; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; PLS REGRESSION; SENSOR DATA; SPECIES DISTRIBUTIONS; SPRUCE BUDWORM;

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS;

ABUNDANCE; CONIFEROUS TREE; DECIDUOUS TREE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; HOST PLANT; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; LARVA; MOTH; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; DATA PROCESSING; FORESTS; MINNESOTA; ONTARIO; PICEA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

CANADA; MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; UNITED STATES;

ABIES; ABIES BALSAMEA; CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; CONIFEROPHYTA; HEXAPODA; PICEA; PICEA GLAUCA;

EID: 50849137515     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.07.005     Document Type: Article

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