Functional assessment and remote-sensing upscaling of coastal erosion damages on forest stands

Sabrina Raddi; Federico Magnani; Ivan Pippi

doi:10.1117/12.332742

11 December 1998 Functional assessment and remote-sensing upscaling of coastal erosion damages on forest stands

Sabrina Raddi, Federico Magnani, Ivan Pippi

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Proceedings Volume 3499, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.332742
Event: Remote Sensing, 1998, Barcelona, Spain

Abstract

Simple models relating growth to photosynthetically active solar radiation absorbed by forest canopies are a necessary tool for scaling-up functional parameters to ecosystem scale. The present study examined the effects of coastal erosion and of distance from the seaside on the physiology and growth of 63-year-old Pinus pinea stands. The effects of radiation interception, stomatal limitations and carbon allocation on stand above-ground increments were analyzed. The assessment of the relative importance of each term and the relation between growth and intercepted light by the canopy was the starting point for RS analysis by means of vegetation indices based on TM images, once confounding effects had been eliminated by pairwise analysis. The analysis of reflectance spectra also allowed to quantify the impact of erosion on ecosystem diversity and integrity.

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Sabrina Raddi, Federico Magnani, and Ivan Pippi "Functional assessment and remote-sensing upscaling of coastal erosion damages on forest stands", Proc. SPIE 3499, Remote Sensing for Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Hydrology, (11 December 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.332742

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