Deriving stand age distribution in boreal forests using SPOT VEGETATION and NOAA AVHRR imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 91, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 405-418

  Zhang, Quanfa ^a   Pavlic, Goran ^a   Chen, Wenjun ^a   Latifovic, Rasim ^a   Fraser, Robert ^a   Cihlar, Josef ^a  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest disturbances; NDVI; Short wave vegetation index (SWVI); Stand age distribution

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FORESTS; STAND AGE DISTRIBUTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

AGE; AVHRR; BOREAL FOREST; IMAGE ANALYSIS; NDVI; NOAA SATELLITE; REMOTE SENSING; SPOT;

EID: 2942717191     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.04.004     Document Type: Article

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