Modeling a Historical Mountain Pine Beetle Outbreak Using Landsat MSS and Multiple Lines of Evidence

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 155, Issue , 2014, Pages 275-288

  Assal, Timothy J ^a,b   Sibold, Jason ^b   Reich, Robin ^b  

^a FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest Disturbance; Landsat; Mountain Pine Beetle; NDVI time series; Spectral Trajectory; Tree Mortality

Indexed keywords

FOREST DISTURBANCES; LANDSAT; MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE; NDVI TIME SERIES; TREE MORTALITY;

AERIAL SURVEY; BEETLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST CANOPY; LANDSAT; MORTALITY; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; NDVI; WILDFIRE;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; GLACIER NATIONAL PARK [BRITISH COLUMBIA];

COLEOPTERA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 84909646751     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.09.002     Document Type: Article

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