This paper presents the possibility of using satellite images of low spatial resolution for the observation of disturbances in forests such as fires, ice sleet damage, wind breakages, illegal logging and other events. In the study we focused on the SPOT-VEGETATION and PROBA-V satellite data, which are used for vegetation monitoring. For them we acquired long-term time series of observations with span off more than a decade. We developed new method for determination of the extent and the degree of disturbances by the vegetation indicators that are able to detect intensly expressed disturbances of various origins, despite of its relatively low spatial, but high temporal resolution. The capability to detect various events was investigated at the level of individual forest management units, but in the case of a disturbance of a smaller extent it is more reasonable to observe only the affected area.
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