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Remote Sensing of Chinese Tamarisk (Tamarix chinensis) and Associated Vegetation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

J. H. Everitt  and
C. J. Deloach
J. H. Everitt
Affiliation:
Range Sci., Remote Sensing Unit, Agric. Res. Serv., U.S. Dep. Agric., 2413 E. Hwy 83, Weslaco, TX 78596
C. J. Deloach
Affiliation:
Res. Entomol., Biol. Control of Weeds Unit, Agric. Res. Serv., U.S. Dep. Agric, 808 E . Blackland Rd., Temple, TX 76502
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Abstract

Chinese tamarisk is an invader of riparian sites in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Plant canopy light reflectance measurements showed that Chinese tamarisk had higher visible (0.55- and 0.65-μm wavelengths and 0.63- to 0.69-μm waveband) reflectance than did associated woody and herbaceous plant species in the late fall-early winter period when its foliage turned a yellow-orange to orange-brown color prior to leaf drop. Chinese tamarisk had a yellow-orange color on conventional color (0.40- to 0.70-μm) aerial photographs during this phenological stage that made it distinguishable from other plant species. Computer analyses of conventional color film positive transparencies showed that Chinese tamarisk populations could be quantified from associated vegetation. This technique can permit area estimates of Chinese tamarisk infestations on wildland areas.

Keywords

Chinese tamarisk, Tamarix chinensis Lour. ♯ TAACHReflectancecolor photographycolor-infrared photographysaltcedarriparian habitatTamarix chinensisTAACH
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Weed Science , Volume 38 , Issue 3 , May 1990 , pp. 273 - 278
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Copyright © 1990 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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