The potential of EnMAP and sentinel-2 data for detecting drought stress phenomena in deciduous forest communities

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 14227-14258

  Dotzler, Sandra ^a   Hill, Joachim ^a   Buddenbaum, Henning ^a   Stoffels, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Drought stress; Early detection; EnMAP; European beech; Global warming; Hyperspectral imaging; PRI; Sentinel 2; Spectral indicators; Water and chlorophyll concentration

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; DROUGHT; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; MOISTURE; PLANTS (BOTANY); SOIL MOISTURE; SPECTROSCOPY; VEGETATION;

CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION; DROUGHT STRESS; ENMAP; EUROPEAN BEECH; HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING; PRI; SENTINEL-2;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84945918177     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs71014227     Document Type: Article

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