Historical vegetation reconstruction of a degraded sub-arctic coastal marsh using Landsat imagery and ancillary data

Ecoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 271-279

  Gadallah, Fawziah L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chen caerulescens caerulescens; Hudson Bay; Landsat Thematic Mapper; Lesser Snow Geese; Remote sensing; Unsupervised classification; Vegetation mapping; Vegetation reconstruction; Wetland

Indexed keywords

HABITAT MANAGEMENT; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION HISTORY; VEGETATION MAPPING; WATERFOWL; WETLAND; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

CANADA; LA PEROUSE BAY; MANITOBA;

ANAS; ANATIDAE; ANSER; ANSER SP.; CHEN CAERULESCENS; CHEN CAERULESCENS CAERULESCENS;

EID: 0036303093     PISSN: 11956860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/11956860.2002.11682713     Document Type: Article

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