Inventory of forest and rangeland and detection of forest stress
- Author:
- Driscoll, R. S.
- Published:
- Nov 20, 1973.
- Physical Description:
- 1 electronic document
- Additional Creators:
- Weber, F. P., Heller, R. C., and Aldrich, R. C.
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- The author has identified the following significant results. Eucalyptus tree stands killed by low temperatures in December 1972 were outlined by image enhancement of two separate dates of ERTS-1 images (January 22, 1973-I.D. 1183-18175 and April 22, 1973-I.D. 1273-18183). Three stands larger than 500 meters in size were detected very accurately. In Colorado, range and grassland communities were analyzed by visual interpretation of color composite scene I.D. 1028-17135. It was found that mixtures of plant litter, amount and kind of bare soil, and plant foliage cover made classification of grasslands very difficult. Changes in forest land use were detected on areas as small as 5 acres when ERTS-1 color composite scene 1264-15445 (April 13, 1973) was compared with 1966 ASCS index mosaics (scale 1:60,000). Verification of the changes were made from RB-57 underflight CIR transparencies (scale 1:120,000).
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- Collection:
- NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
- Note:
- Document ID: 19740004941.
Accession ID: 74N13054.
NASA-CR-136172.
PR-6.
FS-1-6.
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