Landsat imagery spectral trajectories-important variables for spatially predicting the risks of bark beetle disturbance

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Hais, Martin ^a   Wild, Jan ^b,c   Berec, Luděk ^d   Brůna, Josef ^b,e   Kennedy, Robert ^f   Braaten, Justin ^f   Brož, Zdeněk ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (Czech Republic)

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

^d INSTITUTE OF ENTOMOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^e CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^f OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bark beetle; Forest disturbance; Landsat; Spectral trajectories

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORECASTING; LUMINANCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRAJECTORIES;

BARK BEETLE; DISTURBANCE PREDICTORS; FOREST DISTURBANCES; LANDSAT; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; MULTI-MODEL INFERENCE; PREDICTIVE ABILITIES;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84983782424     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8080687     Document Type: Article

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