| Title: |
Monitoring Ash Dieback in Europe—An Unrevealed Perspective for Remote Sensing? |
| Authors: |
Gašparović, Mateo1 (AUTHOR), Pilaš, Ivan2 (AUTHOR) ivanp@sumins.hr, Klobučar, Damir3 (AUTHOR), Gašparović, Iva4 (AUTHOR) |
| Source: |
Remote Sensing. Mar2023, Vol. 15 Issue 5, p1178. 13p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*DIEBACK, *REMOTE sensing, *INFORMATION retrieval, *MULTISPECTRAL imaging, *MACHINE learning, *RADAR, *INFORMATION resources |
| Company/Entity: |
SENTINEL-1 (Artificial satellite) |
| Abstract: |
The ash dieback pandemic, caused by the invasive fungus Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, represents one of Europe's biggest threats to preserving natural biodiversity. To ensure the suppression of forest damage caused by fungi, timely recognition of the symptoms of ash dieback and further continuous monitoring on an adequate spatial scale are essential. Visual crown damage assessment is currently the most common method used for identifying ash dieback, but it lacks the spatial and temporal coverage required for effective disease suppression. Remote sensing technologies, with the capabilities of fast and repetitive retrieval of information over a large spatial scale, could present efficient supplementary methods for ash damage detection and disease monitoring. In this study, we provided a synthesis of the existing remote sensing methods and applications that considers ash dieback disease, and we described the lifecycle of the disease using the major symptoms that remote sensing technologies can identify. Unfortunately, although effective methods of monitoring biotic damage through remote sensing have been developed, ash dieback has only been addressed in two research studies in the United Kingdom and Germany. These studies were based on single-date hyperspectral and very-high-resolution imagery in combination with machine learning, using previously specified ground-truth information regarding crown damage status. However, no study exists using high-resolution imagery such as Sentinel-2 or radar Sentinel-1, although some preliminary project results show that these coarser sources of information could be applicable for ash dieback detection and monitoring in cases of Fraxinus angustifolia, which forms pure, more homogenous stands in Southern Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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