Assessing changes in forest fragmentation following infestation using time series Landsat imagery

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 259, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2355-2365

  Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Gillanders, Steve N ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b   Gergel, Sarah E ^a   Nelson, Trisalyn ^c   Goodwin, Nicholas R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d Department of Natural Resources and Water ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Disturbance; Fragmentation; Heterogeneity; Insect; Landsat; Landscape pattern index; Mountain pine beetle; Multi temporal; Spatial pattern; Time series

Indexed keywords

INSECT; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE PATTERN INDICES; MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE; MULTI-TEMPORAL; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIGNAL DETECTION; TIME SERIES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONNECTIVITY; FOREST RESOURCE; HETEROGENEITY; LANDSAT; PARASITE INFESTATION; PATCH SIZE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; FRAGMENTATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INSECTS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS PONDEROSAE; HEXAPODA; PINUS CONTORTA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 77952100427     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.03.008     Document Type: Article

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