Characterizing the state and processes of change in a dynamic forest environment using hierarchical spatio-temporal segmentation

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1665-1679

  Gómez, Cristina ^a   White, Joanne C ^b   Wulder, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Change; Forest; Hierarchical spatio temporal segmentation; Landsat; Landscape pattern; Landscape process; Monitoring; PI; Process indicator; Spectral trajectory; Tasseled Cap Angle; TCA

Indexed keywords

CHANGE; FOREST; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE PATTERN; LANDSCAPE PROCESS; PI; PROCESS INDICATOR; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SEGMENTATION; SPECTRAL TRAJECTORY; TASSELED CAP; TCA;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; TRAJECTORIES; VEGETATION;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ABUNDANCE; GROWTH RATE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUCCESSION; TIME SERIES;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

EID: 79954609561     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.02.025     Document Type: Article

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