Application of Landsat satellite imagery to monitor land-cover changes at the Athabasca Oil Sands, Alberta, Canada

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 466-485

  Gillanders, Steve N ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b   Goodwin, Nicholas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Geographical tools; Image archive; Landsat; Oil sands; Remediation; Time series

Indexed keywords

IMAGERY; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; OIL SAND; REMEDIATION; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION; WETLAND; WOODLAND;

ALBERTA; ATHABASCA OIL SANDS; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 57349122469     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: 15410064     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2008.00225.x     Document Type: Article

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