Forecasting tree mortality using change metrics derived from MODIS satellite data

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1166-1173

  Verbesselt, Jan ^a   Robinson, Andrew ^b   Stone, Christine ^c   Culvenor, Darius ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Change metrics; Forecasting; Forest; Ips bark beetle; MODIS; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

CHANGE METRICS; FOREST; IPS BARK BEETLE; MODIS; TREE MORTALITY;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ATMOSPHERICS; FORESTRY; METRIC SYSTEM; POPULATION STATISTICS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPECTROMETERS; SURVEYS; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

ELECTRIC LOAD FORECASTING;

DATA ACQUISITION; DEAD WOOD; FOREST HEALTH; INSECT; MODIS; MORTALITY; PLANTATION; POPULATION DENSITY; REGRESSION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SILVICULTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREE; VEGETATION INDEX;

AIR CRAFT; BIOLOGICAL POPULATIONS; ELECTRICITY; FORECASTS; FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSECTS; MORTALITY; PHOTOGRAPHY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; IPS; PINUS RADIATA; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 68949150798     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.06.011     Document Type: Article

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