Object-based extraction of bark beetle (Ips typographus L.) infestations using multi-date LANDSAT and SPOT satellite imagery

Progress in Physical Geography

Volumn 38, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 755-785

  Latifi, Hooman ^a   Fassnacht, Fabian E ^b   Schumann, Bastian ^a   Dech, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

European bark beetle; forest mortality; multi date imagery; object based image analysis; spatial modelling

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; BIOMONITORING; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT; MAPPING; MORTALITY; PEST CONTROL; PEST DAMAGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPOT; STAND DYNAMICS;

BAVARIA; BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK; GERMANY;

IPS TYPOGRAPHUS; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 84919660373     PISSN: 03091333     EISSN: 14770296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0309133314550670     Document Type: Article

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