Detection of spatio-temporal changes of Norway spruce forest stands in ore mountains using landsat time series and airborne hyperspectral imagery

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Mišurec, Jan ^a,b   Kopačková, Veronika ^a   Lhotáková, Zuzana ^b   Campbell, Petya ^c   Albrechtová, Jana ^b  

^a CZECH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (Czech Republic)

^b CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest health; Hyperspectral imagery; Landsat; Norway spruce; OreMountains; Tasseled cap

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LANDFORMS; METADATA; ORES; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANTS (BOTANY); POLLUTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

FOREST HEALTH; HYPER-SPECTRAL IMAGERIES; LANDSAT; NORWAY SPRUCE; OREMOUNTAINS; TASSELED CAP;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84962560869     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8020092     Document Type: Article

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