Discriminating the occurrence of pitch canker fungus in Pinus radiata trees using QuickBird imagery and artificial neural networks

Southern Forests

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-40

  Poona, Nitesh K ^a   Ismail, Riyad ^b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b Sappi Forests Pty Ltd   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Fusarium circinatum; neural networks; QuickBird; tree crown

Indexed keywords

FUNGI; FUSARIUM; GIBBERELLA CIRCINATA; PINUS RADIATA;

EID: 84876024841     PISSN: 20702620     EISSN: 20702639     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2989/20702620.2012.748255     Document Type: Article

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