Author: Nicholas C. CoopsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest mapping
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Integrating Remotely Sensed and Ancillary Data Sources to Characterize a Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation
Author: Nicholas C. CoopsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest mapping
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Remote Sensing in the Survey of Mountain Pine Beetle Impacts
Author: Michael Albert WulderPublisher: Canadian Government Publishing
ISBN: 9780662400554
Category : Aerial surveys in forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Linking Survey Detection Accuracy with Ability to Mitigate Populations of Mountain Pine Beetle
Author: S. CogginsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Over the period 1999 to 2006, the mountain pine beetle impacted an estimated 10.1 million hectares of pine forest in British Columbia, Canada. Surveys to detect the location, size, and impact of infestations are conducted from field, airborne, and satellite perspectives. Importantly, the differing survey approaches characterize the infestation over dissimilar spatial scales (i.e., trees, stands, landscapes), and with varying levels of detection accuracy. In this report, the authors provide background for understanding differing survey approaches, the nature of the information generated, the resultant detection accuracies that may be expected, and the link between survey accuracy and the ability to mitigate a given mountain pine beetle infestation.--Document.
Information Need Driven Applications of Remotely Sensed Data for Mapping Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation at Landscape and Tree Levels
Author: Michael A. WulderPublisher:
ISBN: 9780662471257
Category : Arbres
Languages : en
Pages : 23
Book Description
When applying remotely sensed data, the information needs dictate the selection of data and analysis methods. Whether the scope of the application is over large areas or individual trees, a project typically must address logistical issues related to data selection and subsequent processing. Logistical issues include the scale at which the target must be measured (which will determine the appropriate sources of imagery), the attributes of interest, cost, timeliness, and repeatability. In this report, we ... synthesize approaches for detection and mapping of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) red-attack damage with remotely sensed data, from a forest management and disturbance mitigation perspective.
Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies for Monitoring and Prediction of Disasters
Author: Shailesh NayakPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540792597
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Lessons learned in the last several years have given clear indications that the prediction and efficient monitoring of disasters is one of the critical factors in decision-making process. In this respect space-based technologies have the great potential of supplying information in near real time. Earth observation satellites have already demonstrated their flexibility in providing data to a wide range of applications: weather forecasting, person and vehicle tracking, alerting to disaster, forest fire and flood monitoring, oil spills, spread of desertification, monitoring of crop and forestry damages. This book focuses on a wider utilisation of remote sensing in disaster management. The discussed aspects comprise data access/delivery to the users, information extraction and analysis, management of data and its integration with other data sources (airborne and terrestrial imagery, GIS data, etc.), data standardization, organisational and legal aspects of sharing remote sensing information.
Preliminary Findings Towards the Use of Lidar and Digital Aerial Imagery as Sampling Tools to Characterize Volume Killed by Mountain Pine Beetle
Author: Christopher William BaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
This working paper presents a prototype model to estimate the amount of lodgepole pine affected by a mountain pine beetle (MPB) attack. After employing digital aerial image interpretation to determine species composition, diameter at breast height (DBH), and the severity of attack, and lidar data to measure stand height, species-specific equations were used to estimate volumes killed.--Document.
Integrating Management Strategies for the Mountain Pine Beetle with Multiple-resource Management of Lodgepole Pine Forests
Author: Working Paper, Monitoring Tree-level Insect Population Dynamics with Multi-scale and Multi-source Remote Sensing
Author: Michael A. WulderPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Long-term monitoring of the rate of change of mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) populations requires detailed tree-level information over large areas. This information is used to assess the status of an infestation (e.g., increasing, stable, or decreasing), and to select and evaluate mitigation approaches. In this research project, the authors develop and demonstrate a prototype monitoring system, which enables the extrapolation of tree-level estimates of beetle damage from field data to a larger study area using a double sampling approach, and multi-scale, multi-source, high spatial resolution remotely sensed data. The project study area encompasses over 6 million ha and is located at the leading edge of an ongoing mountain pine beetle epidemic along the provincial border between British Columbia and Alberta, within the Dawson Creek Timber Supply Area (TSA) of British Columbia and the Northwest Boreal Forest Management Unit in Alberta.--Document.
Preliminary Risk Rating for Mountain Pine Beetle Infestation of Lodgepole Pine Forests Over Large Areas with Ordinal Regression Modelling
Author: Colin RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
In western Canada, the operational risk rating system for mountain pine beetle is based on biological knowledge gained from a rich legacy of stand-scale field studies. Owing to the large spatial and temporal extents of the current epidemic, new research into large-area mountain pine beetle processes has revealed further insights into the landscape-scale characteristics of beetle infested forests. This research evaluates the potential for this new knowledge to augment an established system for rating the short-term risk of tree mortality in a stand due to mountain pine beetle.--Publisher's website.
Landscape Planning
Author: Murat OzyavuzPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9535106546
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor and public spaces to achieve environmental, socio-behavioral, and/or aesthetic outcomes. It involves the systematic investigation of existing social, ecological, and geological conditions and processes in the landscape, and the design of interventions that will produce the desired outcome. The scope of the profession includes: urban design; site planning; town or urban planning; environmental restoration; parks and recreation planning; visual resource management; green infrastructure planning and provision; and private estate and residence landscape master planning and design - all at varying scales of design, planning and management. This book contains chapters on recent developments in studies of landscape architecture. For this reason I believe the book would be useful to the relevant professional disciplines.