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Assessing forest damage in high-elevation coniferous forests in Vermont and New Hampshire using Thematic Mapper dataThis study evaluates the potential of measuring/mapping forest damage in spruce-fir forests in the Green Mountains of Vermont and White Mountains of New Hampshire using Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data. The TM 1.65/0.83-micron (TM5/4) and 2.22/0.83-micron (TM7/4) band ratios were found to correlate well with ground-based measurements of forest damage (a measure of percentage foliar loss) at 11 spruce-fir stands located on Camels Hump, a mountain in northern Vermont. Images using 0.56 and 1.65-micron bands with 1.65/0.83-micron band ratios indicated locations of heavy conifer forest damage. Both 1.65/0.83 and 2.22/0.83-micron band ratios were used to quantify levels of conifer forest damage among individual mountains throughout many of the Green and White Mountains. Damage was found to be consistently higher for the Green than the White Mountains.
Document ID
19880043213
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Reprint (Version printed in journal)
Authors
Vogelmann, James E.
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Rock, Barrett N.
(California Institute of Technology Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States)
Date Acquired
August 13, 2013
Publication Date
March 1, 1988
Publication Information
Publication: Remote Sensing of Environment
Volume: 24
ISSN: 0034-4257
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Accession Number
88A30440
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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