Forests, Volume 11, Issue 3
March 2020 - 112 articles
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Cover Story: Forest resources in Georgia, USA, have a high economic impact, and their sustainability depends on accurate resource assessments. Forest disturbances, such as harvests and calamities, have the most significant impacts on the inventories and their fluctuations; they directly affect the standing volumes and the ages of the regenerated stands. The two primary objectives of this research were to develop and test a reliable methodology for statewide tracking of forest disturbances in Georgia; and to consider and discuss the utility and implications of the information derived from the forest disturbance map. Two primary disturbance detection methods, a threshold algorithm, and a statistical boundary method were combined to develop a robust estimation of recent forest disturbance history for the years 1987–2016, based on analysis of all available Landsat TM/ETM+ data, producing dependable results. View this paper 
