Predicting temperate conifer forest successional stage distributions with multitemporal Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 228-237

  Song, Conghe ^a   Schroeder, Todd A ^b   Cohen, Warren B ^c  

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

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest succession; GORT; Multitemporal Landsat Imagery; Stand age; ZELIG

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES;

FOREST SUCCESSION; MULTITEMPORAL LANDSAT IMAGERY; STAND AGES;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STAND STRUCTURE; SUCCESSION; TEMPERATE FOREST;

CARBON; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; SATELLITES;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 33845909288     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.08.008     Document Type: Article

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