Treeline vegetation composition and change in Canada's western Subarctic from AVHRR and canopy reflectance modeling

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 805-815

  Olthof, Ian ^a   Pouliot, Darren ^a  

^a CANADA CENTRE FOR REMOTE SENSING   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arctic; AVHRR; Subarctic; Treeline; Trends; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

1KM RESOLUTION; ARCTIC; CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CANOPY REFLECTANCE MODEL; COMPOSITE IMAGES; GEOSAIL; INDIVIDUAL TREE; LABOUR-INTENSIVE; LIFE FORM; LOCAL ANALYSIS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS; SPATIAL EXTENT; SPECTRAL CHANGE; STAND RECONSTRUCTION; SUBARCTIC REGIONS; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TRANSITION ZONES; TREELINE; VEGETATION CHANGE; VEGETATION COMPOSITION; VEGETATION CONTINUOUS FIELDS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION TYPE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY;

VEGETATION;

CANOPY REFLECTANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOTONE; NDVI; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TRANSITION ZONE; TREELINE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION TYPE;

ARCTIC REGIONS; FOREST CANOPY; FORESTS; PLANTS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ARCTIC; CANADA;

CONIFEROPHYTA;

EID: 75149161672     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2009.11.017     Document Type: Article

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