Remote sensing of land-cover change and landscape context of the National Parks: A case study of the Northeast Temperate Network

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 113, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1453-1461

  Wang, Yeqiao ^a   Mitchell, Brian R ^b   Nugranad Marzilli, Jarunee ^a   Bonynge, Gregory ^a   Zhou, Yuyu ^a   Shriver, Gregory ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Land cover change; Landsat; Landscape context of protected land; National Parks; Northeast Temperate Network

Indexed keywords

LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE CONTEXT OF PROTECTED LAND; NATIONAL PARKS; NORTHEAST TEMPERATE NETWORK;

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LANDFORMS; MANAGEMENT; REMOTE SENSING;

PARKS;

DETECTION METHOD; FOREST COVER; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; NATIONAL PARK; PROTECTED AREA; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

APPALACHIANS; MAINE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67349159697     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2008.09.017     Document Type: Article

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