Evaluating the potential of multispectral imagery to map multiple stages of tree mortality

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1632-1642

  Meddens, Arjan J H ^a   Hicke, Jeffrey A ^a   Vierling, Lee A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial imagery; Gray attack; Image classification; Mountain pine beetle; Resolution; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

AERIAL IMAGERY; GRAY ATTACK; MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE; RESOLUTION; TREE MORTALITY;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BLIND SOURCE SEPARATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDFORMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; NEEDLES; PIXELS; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

MAPPING;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BEETLE; CONIFEROUS TREE; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MORTALITY; NDVI; PEST OUTBREAK; PIXEL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

AIR CRAFT; FORESTRY; INSECTS; MAPPING; NEEDLES; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION;

COLORADO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 79954596639     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.02.018     Document Type: Article

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