Characterizing stand-replacing disturbance in western Alberta grizzly bear habitat, using a satellite-derived high temporal and spatial resolution change sequence

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 261, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 865-877

  Gaulton, Rachel ^a   Hilker, Thomas ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Stenhouse, Gordon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c Foothills Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Change detection; Harvesting; Landsat; MODIS; Monitoring; Ursus arctos L.

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MAPPING; ALBERTA; CHANGE DETECTION; CLOUD CONTAMINATION; DISTURBANCE LEVEL; FOREST DISTURBANCES; GRIZZLY BEAR; GROWING SEASON; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; HOME RANGE; KAPPA STATISTIC; LANDSAT; LANDSAT IMAGES; LANDSAT TM; LANDSAT-5 (L5) THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSAT-7 (L7) ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPER PLUS (ETM+); MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; REFLECTANCE CHANGES; ROCKY MOUNTAINS; SPATIAL EXTENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; TEMPORAL PATTERN; URSUS ARCTOS L.; WILDLIFE HABITATS;

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RADIOMETERS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ALGORITHM; BEAR; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROWING SEASON; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT USE; HARVESTING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; MODIS; MOVEMENT; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THEMATIC MAPPING; WILDFIRE;

ALBERTA; CANADA; ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 78651415512     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2010.12.020     Document Type: Article

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