Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management - Chapter 3 potx

... Processing Chapter 5: Forest Modeling and GIS Chapter 6: Forest Classification Chapter 7: Forest Structure Estimation Chapter 8: Forest Change Detection Chapter 9: Conclusion Chapter 2Sustainable Forest ... of Remote Sensing in Forest Management Organization of the BookOverview Chapter Summaries Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Sustainable Forest Management Chapter 3: Acquisition of Imagery Chapter ... IntroductionThis treatment of remote sensing for sustainable forest management begins byreviewing working definitions of remote sensing and sustainable forest management. For different reasons, perhaps...

... bound withinknown limits. Many forest studies — not simply remote sensing studies of forests,but studies of forest management, forest growth, forest disturbance, and forest change— begin with statements ... making full use of it” (Con-galton et al., 19 93: p. 534 ).What foresters require to accomplish their task of sustainable forest management begins with good information of the forest resource with ... (19 93) , incorporated the useof remotely sensed forest covertypes and a GIS database to build maps and man-agement plans of old-growth forests. The objective was to understand old-growthforest...

... for mapping. In sus-tainable forest management applications, it appears that three general but differentkinds or types of digital remote sensing information are of interest.1. Continuous forest ... variable information (e.g., spectral response estimationof crown closure or LAI)2. Forest classification information (e.g., spectral response categorization of forest covertypes) 3. Forest change ... and will likely continue to evolve as foresters increasingly look to extractfrom remote sensing the information needed to support sustainable forest manage-ment applications in the future.Image...

... LitterRespirationPhotosynthesisOutflowH02H02H02H02H02H02H02H02CCCLAIAnnual Sum - Photosynthesis - Evapotranspiration - Respiration - Absorbed ParAnnual Deposit - N Deposition - N FixationAnnual AllocationCarbon, Nitrogen - Leaf (LAI) - Stem - Coarse Root - Fine ... generate remote sensing output products — princi-pally, forestry maps. No doubt a primary focus in remote sensing and GIS integrationwill continue to be maps and time-series of maps to support forest ... species was inappropriate for the site.SPATIAL PATTERN MODELING Sustainable forest management recognizes the importance of spatial forest structure,defined as the mosaic of forest patches varying...

... toaccomplish the goals of forest management. It seems unlikely that there will be aone-to-one correspondence between spectral response patterns, forest covertypes, forest ecosystems and forest stands; ... (nonflooded alluvial plains forest, lowland season-allyflooded forest, palm forest, and swamp forest) were mapped accurately usingLandsat TM imagery of the Chimanes Forest. When the categories ... generated for the exact same piece of forest; all three can be used togenerate map products of great interest and use in sustainable forest management for a variety of different applications. The forest...

... imagery in forestry remains underexploited, but the poten-tial is being recognized. FOREST AGEIt would be difficult to argue that forest age can be remotely sensed directly; manyforests are ... al.,1998) and remote sensing measurements (Cohen and Spies, 1992) have been sought for a variety of forest management applications that require information on a com-posite or summary measure of forest ... available for decades, and are nowavailable from satellite platforms. These remote sensing data are ready-made for forestry applications, and are ideally suited to help answer some of the same ques-tions...

... Matrix for Three Classes at Two Different TimesReference DataaClass DataaF1F2F3F1F2F1F3F2F1F2F3F3F1F3F2F1 xF2 xF3 xF1F2 xF1F3 xF2F1 xF2F3 xF3F1 xF3F2 xaHypothetical three-class ... guidelines that have been proposed to promote sus-tainable forms of forestry in the U.K. Forest management must take into accountthe larger landscape in which forest stands and ecosystems occur; it is ... reserves. Forest managers and scientists have developed the concepts of forest susceptibility and forest vulnerability to help differentiate between levels of defoliation and conse-quential forest...

... multisource remote sensing images. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sensing, 35 : 32 6 33 9.Birot, Y. 1999. Sustainable forest management: a strong demand by society to the scientificcommunity. Sustainable Forest ... backscatter and the remote sensing of biomass. IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sensing, 33 : 34 1 35 2.Innes, J. L. 1992. Forest decline. Prog. Phys. Geogr., 16: 1–64.Innes, J. L. 19 93. Forest Health: Its ... area index and forest type when estimating photosynthesisin boreal forests. Rem. Sensing Environ., 43: 30 3 31 4.Bordelon, M. A., D. C. McAllister, and R. Holloway. 2000. Sustainable forestry Oregon...

... (I - 1)(K - 1) MSAC = SSAC/{(I - 1)(K - 1)} MSAC/MSEBC Interaction SSBC (J - 1)(K - 1) MSBC = SSBC/{(J - 1)(K - 1)} MSBC/MSEABC Interaction SSABC (I - 1)(J - 1)(K - 1) MSABC = SSABC/{(I - 1)(J ... MSABC = SSABC/{(I - 1)(J - 1)(K - 1)} MSABC/MSEError SSE IJK(m - 1) MSE = SSE/{IJK(m - 1)}Total SST = 33 33( xijk - x)2n - 11The sum for SST is over all levels for i, j , k and m, i.e., ... SSA/(I - 1) MSA/MSEFactor B SSB J - 1 MSB = SSB/(J - 1) MSB/MSEInteraction SSAB (I - 1)(J - 1) MSAB =SSAB/{(I - 1)(J - 1)}MSAB/MSEError SSE IJ(m - 1) MSE =SSE/{IJ(m - 1)}Total SST = 33 3(xijk...