Monitoring oak-hickory forest change during an unprecedented red oak borer outbreak in the Ozark Mountains: 1990 to 2006

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Jones, Joshua S ^a   Tullis, Jason A ^a   Haavik, Laurel J ^a,b   Guldin, James M ^c   Stephen, Fredrick M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b GREAT LAKES FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

change detection; in situ data; insect outbreak; normalized difference water index

Indexed keywords

DECISION TREES; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING;

CHANGE DETECTION; DECISION TREE CLASSIFIERS; IN-SITU DATA; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; INSECT OUTBREAKS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE WATER INDEX; QUADRATIC MEAN DIAMETER; STATISTICAL THRESHOLD;

FORESTRY;

FORESTRY; INSECTS; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SIGNALS;

EID: 84897798635     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.8.083687     Document Type: Article

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