Applicability of a vegetation indices-based method to map bark beetle outbreaks in the High Tatra Mountains

Annals of Forest Research

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 295-310

  Havašová, Mária ^a   Bucha, Tomáš ^b   Ferenčík, Ján ^c   Jakuš, Rastislav ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^b NATIONAL FOREST CENTRE   (Slovakia)

^c Tatra National Park   (Slovakia)

^d CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Change detection; Ips typographus L; Remote sensing; Vegetation index differencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84950975410     PISSN: 18448135     EISSN: 20652445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15287/afr.2015.388     Document Type: Article

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