The spatial manifestation of forest succession in optical imagery: The potential of multiresolution imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 82, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 271-284

  Song, Conghe ^a   Woodcock, Curtis E ^b  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MONITORING; RADIATION;

FOREST SUCCESSION; MULTIRESOLUTION IMAGERY; OPTICAL IMAGING;

REMOTE SENSING;

FOREST; IMAGERY; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SUCCESSION;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; MONITORING; RADIATION; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 0036788008     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00045-7     Document Type: Article

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