Understanding variation in trophic status of lakes on the Boreal Plain: A 20 year retrospective using Landsat TM imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 127-141

  Sass, G Z ^a   Creed, I F ^a   Bayley, S E ^b   Devito, K J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal Plain; Chlorophyll a; Forest; Landsat Thematic Mapper; Natural variation; Secchi disk depth; Shallow lakes; Trophic status; Turbidity

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FORESTRY; IMAGE SENSORS; LINEAR REGRESSION; REFLECTION; TURBIDITY;

LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; NATURAL VARIATION; SHALLOW LAKES; TROPHIC STATUS;

LAKES;

CHLOROPHYLL; FOREST MANAGEMENT; IMAGERY; LACUSTRINE ENVIRONMENT; LANDSAT; TROPHIC STATUS; TURBIDITY;

FORESTRY; LAKES; REFLECTION; TURBIDITY;

ALBERTA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 34249882493     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.12.010     Document Type: Article

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