The development of inventory activities in the field of forest damage assessment and monitoring during the last decade in Germany and the present state are recorded as far as remote sensing has been involved. Any forest inventory is influenced
Forest damage can be caused by three types of stress which exercise their influence by predisposing, causative and contributory factors. When using remote sensing data to monitor the development of forest damage it is necessary therefore not only
an inventory made of the actual condition of the forest of the Land of Brandenburg but also trends of damage progress shown.
An airborne spectroscopic image was flown over an intensively used agricultural area and over a location which had suffered from a forest fire. Many surfaces feature details could be indentified either from synthesized near true color images, from