Post-hurricane forest damage assessment using satellite remote sensing

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 122-132

  Wang, Wanting ^a   Qu, John J ^a   Hao, Xianjun ^a   Liu, Yongqiang ^b   Stanturf, John A ^b  

^a Environmental Science and Technology Center   (United States)

^b Center for Forest Disturbance Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Forest disturbance; MODIS; NDII; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; HURRICANE; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STORM DAMAGE; VEGETATION INDEX;

EID: 70449525473     PISSN: 01681923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2009.09.009     Document Type: Article

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