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Van Gunst, K.J. 2012. Forest Mortality in Lake Tahoe Basin from ...

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60b1.b2.d. c.FIGURE 1-6. Pictorial sequence of remote sens<strong>in</strong>g process<strong>in</strong>g used to derive annualmortality maps. Level 1 terra<strong>in</strong> corrected Landsat TM 5 satellite image is acquired,resized to study area, and normalized to reference imagery (a).Year one (ex.2009) andyear two (ex. 2010) normalized images are transformed <strong>in</strong>to s<strong>in</strong>gle-year NDWI maps (b1,2009: b2, 2010). Cont<strong>in</strong>uous differenced NDWI (dNDWI) map (c) is derived bysubtract<strong>in</strong>g 2009 NDWI (Year 1) <strong>from</strong> 2010 NDWI (Year 2). Map of cont<strong>in</strong>uous dNDWIis classified <strong>in</strong>to maps of healthy and canopy dieback pixels us<strong>in</strong>g validated thresholds(dNDWI

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