Estimating post-fire organic soil depth in the Alaskan boreal forest using the Normalized Burn Ratio

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 29, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 3845-3853

  Verbyla, D ^a   Lord, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REFORESTATION; SOILS;

BLACK SPRUCE; BOREAL FORESTS; FIELD SAMPLING; FIRE SEVERITY; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; ORGANIC SOIL; STEM DENSITY;

FIRES;

BOREAL FOREST; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; ORGANIC SOIL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOIL DEPTH; WILDFIRE;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

PICEA MARIANA; SALIX;

EID: 46349111936     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160701802497     Document Type: Article

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