In situ/remote sensing integration to assess forest health-a review

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Pause, Marion ^a   Schweitzer, Christian ^b   Rosenthal, Michael ^c   Keuck, Vanessa ^d   Bumberger, Jan ^a   Dietrich, Peter ^a   Heurich, Marco ^e   Jung, András ^f   Lausch, Angela ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b German Environment Agency   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^e BAVARIAN FOREST NATIONAL PARK   (Germany)

^f SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Copernicus; Forest health; In situ sampling; Monitoring; Remote sensing; Sensor networks; Sentinel satellites; Standardization

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; HEALTH; MONITORING; SATELLITES; SENSOR NETWORKS; STANDARDIZATION; TIMBER;

COPERNICUS; FOREST HEALTH; FOREST HEALTH ASSESSMENT; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; OPERATIONAL APPLICATIONS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING DATA;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84974806070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8060471     Document Type: Review

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