Digital aerial photogrammetry for assessing cumulative spruce budworm defoliation and enhancing forest inventories at a landscape-level

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 142, Issue , 2018, Pages 1-11

  Goodbody, Tristan R H ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Hermosilla, Txomin ^a   Tompalski, Piotr ^a   McCartney, Grant ^b   MacLean, David A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b RYAM Forest Management   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cumulative defoliation; Digital aerial photogrammetry; Enhanced forest inventory; Forest monitoring; Partial least squares; Spruce budworm

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAPPING; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; SURVEYS;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; CUMULATIVE DEFOLIATION; DIGITAL AERIAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; ENHANCED FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MONITORING; LANDSCAPE LEVEL; PARTIAL LEAST-SQUARES; SPRUCE BUDWORM; STRUCTURAL METRICS;

ANTENNAS;

BASAL AREA; BOREAL FOREST; DEFOLIATION; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; FOREST INVENTORY; INSECT; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MONITORING; NATIVE SPECIES; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

CANADA; KAPUSKASING ZONE; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

CHORISTONEURA FUMIFERANA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; TORTRICIDAE;

EID: 85047242274     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2018.05.012     Document Type: Article

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