Assessing spatial and temporal variations in surface soil moisture in fire-disturbed black spruce forests in Interior Alaska using spaceborne synthetic aperture radar imagery - Implications for post-fire tree recruitment

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 42-58

  Kasischke, Eric S ^a   Bourgeau Chavez, Laura L ^b   Johnstone, Jill F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b GENERAL DYNAMICS ADVANCED INFORMATION SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; ERS SAR; Fires; Soil moisture; Tree regeneration

Indexed keywords

FIRES; FORESTRY; IMAGE SENSORS; PERMAFROST; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

BOREAL FOREST; ERS SAR; TREE REGENERATION;

SOIL MOISTURE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; FOREST FIRE; RECRUITMENT; REGENERATION; SIR; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL VARIATION; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

FIRES; FORESTS; REFORESTATION; SOIL;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PICEA MARIANA;

EID: 34047258171     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.10.020     Document Type: Article

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