Characterizing 25 years of change in the area, distribution, and carbon stock of Mediterranean pines in Central Spain

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 5546-5573

  Gómez, Cristina ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b   White, Joanne C ^b   Montes, Fernando ^c   Delgado, José A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE VALLADOLID   (Spain)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c Instituto Nacional de Investigacion y Tecnologia Agraria y Alimentaria   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; SENSORS;

LANDSCAPE LEVEL; MEDITERRANEAN PINES; OBJECT BASED IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROCESS INDICATORS; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SPECTRAL CHANGE; TASSELED CAP TRANSFORMATION; TEMPORAL DERIVATIVES;

FORESTRY;

BIOMASS; CARBON BALANCE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

CARBON; HUMAN ENGINEERING; PINUS; REMOTE SENSING; SPAIN;

SPAIN;

EID: 84863421705     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2012.663115     Document Type: Article

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