Snow-covered Landsat time series stacks improve automated disturbance mapping accuracy in forested landscapes

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3203-3219

  Stueve, Kirk M ^a   Housman, Ian W ^a   Zimmerman, Patrick L ^a   Nelson, Mark D ^a   Webb, Jeremy B ^a   Perry, Charles H ^a   Chastain, Robert A ^a   Gormanson, Dale D ^a   Huang, Chengquan ^b   Healey, Sean P ^c   Cohen, Warren B ^d  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated disturbance mapping; Eastern deciduous forest; Forest disturbance commission errors; Great Lakes; Landsat time series stacks; Mixed northern hardwoods; Satellite remote sensing; Snow; Southern boreal forest; Validation; Vegetation change tracker; Winter

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FORESTS; DECIDUOUS FOREST; FOREST DISTURBANCES; GREAT LAKES; LANDSAT; NORTHERN HARDWOODS; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; VALIDATION; VEGETATION CHANGE TRACKER; WINTER;

AUTOMATION; BIODIVERSITY; CATCHMENTS; ECOSYSTEMS; ERRORS; LAKES; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SNOW; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ALGORITHM; AUTOMATION; BIODIVERSITY; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON CYCLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DISTURBANCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST CANOPY; FOREST COVER; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; IMAGERY; LANDSAT; SAMPLING; SNOW COVER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION MAPPING; WETLAND;

AUTOMATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ERRORS; GREAT LAKES; HARDWOODS; MAPPING; PLANTS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; SNOW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CANADA; GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE MICHIGAN; LAKE SUPERIOR;

EID: 81355161419     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.07.005     Document Type: Article

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