Distinguishing Abrupt and Gradual Forest Disturbances With MODIS-Based Phenological Anomaly Series.

ABSTRACT: Capturing forest disturbances over time is increasingly important to determine the ecosystem's capacity to recover as well as aiding a timely response of foresters. With changes due to climate change increasing the frequencies, a better understanding of forest disturbances and their role in historical development is needed to, on the one hand, develop forest management approaches promoting ecosystem resilience and, on the other hand, provide quick and spatially explicit information to foresters. A large, publicly available satellite imagery spanning more than two decades for large areas of the Earth's surface at varying spatial and temporal resolutions represents a vast, free data source for this. The challenge is 2-fold: (1) obtaining reliable information on forest condition and developme

SUBMITTER: Gnilke A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9168887 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature