A GIS-based risk rating of forest insect outbreaks using aerial overview surveys and the local Moran's I statistic

Applied Geography

Volumn 40, Issue , 2013, Pages 161-170

  Bone, Christopher ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b   White, Joanne C ^b   Robertson, Colin ^c   Nelson, Trisalyn A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aerial overview surveys; Insect outbreaks; Local indicators of spatial association; Moran's Ii; Mountain pine beetle

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BEETLE; FOREST COVER; GIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; HEXAPODA; PINUS MUGO; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84875602439     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2013.02.011     Document Type: Article

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