Journal
REMOTE SENSING
Volume 11, Issue 21, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/rs11212515
Keywords
Quercus suber L; cork oak decline; Sentinel-2; time series; vegetation indices
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- GEO SUBER project under the EU's rural development policy through the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) [PDR2020-101-031261]
- Portuguese Union of the Mediterranean Forest (UNAC) [PDR2020-101-031259]
- FCT [UID/GEO/50019/2019]
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In Portugal, cork oak (Quercus suber L.) stands cover 737 Mha, being the most predominant species of the montado agroforestry system, contributing to 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 worsened. 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 monitoring of gradual processes. These processes can be monitored using spectral vegetation indices (VI) as 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.
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