Ecological assessment of Phragmites australis wetlands using multi-season SPOT-5 scenes

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 114, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1602-1609

  Poulin, Brigitte ^a   Davranche, Aurélie ^a,b   Lefebvre, Gaëtan ^a  

^a STATION BIOLOGIQUE DE LA TOUR DU VALAT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Camargue; Ecosystem health; GLM modelling; Multispectral indices; Multitemporal imagery; Phragmites australis; SPOT 5 satellite; State indicators; Vegetation structure; Wetland monitoring

Indexed keywords

CAMARGUE; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; MULTI-SPECTRAL; MULTI-TEMPORAL; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS; SPOT 5 SATELLITE; STATE INDICATORS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

BIRDS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; GRAZING; MONITORING; REEDBED; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPOT; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; WATERFOWL; WETLAND;

FRANCE; RHONE DELTA;

ANATIDAE; AVES; BOS; PHRAGMITES AUSTRALIS;

EID: 77951296507     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2010.02.014     Document Type: Article

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