Detection of relative differences in phenology of forest species using Landsat and MODIS

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 529-543

  Isaacson, Bernard N ^a   Serbin, Shawn P ^a   Townsend, Philip A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Autumn; Forest; Landsat; MODIS; Vegetation phenology

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DATA SET; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DETECTION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MODIS; PHENOLOGY; PIXEL; PLANT COMMUNITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SENESCENCE; SPATIAL VARIATION;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

ACER RUBRUM; ACER SACCHARINUM; BETULA ALLEGHANIENSIS; FRAXINUS NIGRA; LARIX LARICINA;

EID: 84859213798     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-012-9703-x     Document Type: Article

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