Detection of subpixel treefall gaps with Landsat imagery in Central Amazon forests

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3322-3328

  Negrón Juárez, Robinson I ^a   Chambers, Jeffrey Q ^a,b   Marra, Daniel M ^c   Ribeiro, Gabriel H P M ^c   Rifai, Sami W ^a   Higuchi, Niro ^c   Roberts, Dar ^d  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Carbon balance; Climate change; NEP; Spectral mixture analysis; Stand dynamics; Tree mortality

Indexed keywords

CARBON BALANCE; NEP; SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; STAND DYNAMICS; TREE MORTALITY;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; DYNAMICS; REMOTE SENSING;

PIXELS;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON BALANCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; GAP DYNAMICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; MORTALITY; PIXEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STAND DYNAMICS;

BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATES; DEFORESTATION; FORESTS; MORTALITY; REMOTE SENSING; TREES;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL; MANAUS;

EID: 81355161391     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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