Near-real time detection of beetle infestation in pine forests using MODIS data

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 3713-3723

  Anees, Asim ^a   Aryal, Jagannath ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Change detection; model fitting; MODIS; time series

Indexed keywords

BEETLE INFESTATION; CHANGE DETECTION; MODEL FITTING; MODIS; NEAR-REAL TIME; PINE FOREST;

TIME SERIES;

BEETLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DETECTION METHOD; MODIS; PARASITE INFESTATION; REAL TIME; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

COLEOPTERA;

EID: 84910104124     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2014.2330830     Document Type: Article

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