Assessing the Use of Sentinel-2 Time Series for Monitoring Cork Oak Decline in Portugal

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العنوان: Assessing the Use of Sentinel-2 Time Series for Monitoring Cork Oak Decline in Portugal
المؤلفون: Joao P. S. Catalao, Joao Calvao, Ana Navarro
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2019.
سنة النشر: 2019
مصطلحات موضوعية: earth_sciences_other, Geography, biology, engineering, Oak decline, Forestry, Quercus suber, Cork, engineering.material, biology.organism_classification
الوصف: In Portugal, cork oak (Quercus suber L.) stands cover 737 Mha, being the most predominant species of the montado agroforestry system, contributing for the economic, social and environmental development of the country. Cork oak decline is a known problem since the late years of the 19th century that has recently worsen. The causes of oak decline seem to be a result of slow and cumulative processes, although the role of each environmental factor is not yet established. The availability of Sentinel-2 high spatial and temporal resolution dense time series enables gradual processes monitoring. These processes can be monitored using spectral vegetation indices (VI) once their temporal dynamics are expected to be related with green biomass and photosynthetic efficiency. The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is sensitive to structural canopy changes, however it tends to saturate at moderate-to-dense canopies. Modified VI have been proposed to incorporate the reflectance in the red-edge spectral region, which is highly sensitive to chlorophyll content while largely unaffected by structural properties. In this research, in-situ data on the location and vitality status of cork oak trees are used to assess the correlation between chlorophyll indices (CI) and NDVI time series trends and cork oak vitality at the tree level. Preliminary results seem to be promising since differences between healthy and unhealthy (diseased/dead) trees were observed.
وصف الملف: application/pdf
DOI: 10.20944/preprints201909.0316.v1
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::b801d92ffad65b0321a507afac514947
https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201909.0316.v1
Rights: OPEN
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi.dedup.....b801d92ffad65b0321a507afac514947
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
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DOI:10.20944/preprints201909.0316.v1