Broadband, red-edge information from satellites improves early stress detection in a New Mexico conifer woodland

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3640-3646

  Eitel, Jan U H ^a   Vierling, Lee A ^a   Litvak, Marcy E ^b   Long, Dan S ^c   Schulthess, Urs ^d   Ager, Alan A ^e   Krofcheck, Dan J ^b   Stoscheck, Leo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c Box 370   (United States)

^d RapidEye AG   (Germany)

^e PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll a b ratio; Forest health; Juniperus monosperma; Pi on juniper woodland; Pinus edulis; Stress detection

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL A; FOREST HEALTH; JUNIPERUS MONOSPERMA; PINUS EDULIS; STRESS DETECTION;

CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEMS; HEALTH; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRESSES; TIME SERIES;

FORESTRY;

BROADBAND DATA; CHLOROPHYLL; CONIFEROUS FOREST; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; ESTHETICS; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST HEALTH; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MONITORING SYSTEM; NDVI; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; TIMBER; TIME SERIES; WOODLAND;

CHLOROPHYLLS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HEALTH; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PINUS EDULIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; STRESSES;

NEW MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA; JUNIPERUS; JUNIPERUS MONOSPERMA; PINUS EDULIS; TILLANDSIA LINEATISPICA;

EID: 81355148570     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.09.002     Document Type: Article

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