Regional assessment of aspen change and spatial variability on decadal time scales

Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 896-914

  Sankey, Temuulen Tsagaan ^a  

^a IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspen abundance; Change detection; GIS; Landsat TM; Mixture tuned matched filtering

Indexed keywords

ASPEN ABUNDANCE; ASPEN DYNAMICS; BIO-PHYSICAL VARIABLES; CHANGE DETECTION; CHANGE PATTERNS; DECADAL TIMESCALE; IDAHO , USA; LANDSAT; LANDSAT TM; MIXTURE TUNED MATCHED FILTERING; NATIONAL FORESTS; POPULUS TREMULOIDES; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SUB-PIXEL CLASSIFICATION; TIME-PERIODS;

EID: 80051774024     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs1040896     Document Type: Article

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