Mapping whitebark pine mortality caused by a mountain pine beetle outbreak with high spatial resolution satellite imagery

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2009, Pages 4427-4441

  Hicke, Jeffrey A ^a   Logan, Jesse ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c Emigrant   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; FORESTRY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDFORMS; MAPPING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY; SURVEYS; VEGETATION;

CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFICATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS; MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE; MULTI-SPECTRAL IMAGERY; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AERIAL SURVEY; BEETLE; BIOMONITORING; CONIFEROUS TREE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAPPING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; POPULATION OUTBREAK; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

ELECTRIC FIELDS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; MONITORING; MORTALITY; PINUS MONTICOLA; PLANTS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SURVEYS;

NORTH AMERICA;

COLEOPTERA; CRONARTIUM RIBICOLA; HEXAPODA; PINUS ALBICAULIS; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 70449395526     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802566439     Document Type: Article

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