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SAYANI'91 - A joint United States/Commonwealth of Independent States field campaign to investigate forest decline damage in the Krasnoyarsk region of southcentral SiberiaThe field experiment described took place in the Sayani Mountains of Siberia. The purpose of the joint field campaign was to observe and exchange methodologies with Russian scientists with regard to the development of remote sensing techniques for the early detection and assessment of forest decline damage believed to be associated with atmospheric deposition and/or insect and disease infestations. Several types of passive and active remote sensing measurements were made in conjunction with biophysical measurements on vegetative samples collected from four study sites representing a strong elevational gradient. Relatively cloud-free SPOT data were also acquired over the study area. Moderate canopy damage was recorded at the mid-elevation site (3400 ft/1037 m). The lowest levels of damage were recorded at the lowest elevation site (2300 ft/701 m.) At all sites, east versus west flagging of the canopy was noted (i.e., full canopy on the west-facing side of the canopy, significantly less foliage on the east-facing side).
Document ID
19930063907
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Williams, D. L.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Kharuk, V. I.
(Russian Academy of Sciences Inst. of Forest and Wood, Akademgorodok, Russia)
Zhirin, V. M.
(State Forest Committee Moscow, Russia)
Rock, B. N.
(New Hampshire Univ. Durham, United States)
Ranson, K. J.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Wessman, C. A.
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Curtiss, B.
(Cooperative Inst. for Research in Environmental Sciences Boulder, CO, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1992
Publication Information
Publication: In: IGARSS '92; Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Houston, TX, May 26-29, 1992. Vol. 2 (A93-47551 20-43)
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc.
Subject Category
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Accession Number
93A47904
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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