Identifying revegetated mines as disturbance/recovery trajectories using an interannual Landsat chronosequence

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 223-235

  Sen, Susmita ^a,b   Zipper, Carl E ^b   Wynne, Randolph H ^b   Donovan, Patricia F ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; PIXELS; TRAJECTORIES; VEGETATION;

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PARAMETER; ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPERS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSCAPE DISTURBANCE; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; OBJECT-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS;

COAL MINES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CHRONOSEQUENCE; COAL MINE; DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT; NDVI; PIXEL; RECOVERY; REVEGETATION; THEMATIC MAPPING;

COAL; FORESTRY; MINING;

APPALACHIANS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857985171     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.78.3.223     Document Type: Article

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