Evaluating the utility and seasonality of NDVI values for assessing post-disturbance recovery in a subalpine forest

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 184, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3849-3860

  Buma, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Disturbance recovery; Forest fire regeneration; MODIS; NDVI; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

CARBON STORAGE; FOREST DISTURBANCES; FOREST FIRES; FOREST RECOVERY; FOREST TYPE; GROUND INVESTIGATION; LANDSCAPE COMPOSITION; MODIS; NATIONAL FORESTS; NDVI; REAL TIME; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SEASONALITY; SEEDLING DENSITY; VEGETATION INDEX;

DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; RADIOMETERS; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; REVEGETATION; SOIL CONSERVATION;

RECOVERY;

BOOTSTRAPPING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST COVER; FOREST FIRE; MODIS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONALITY; SUBALPINE ENVIRONMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONIFER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM REGENERATION; ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; EPILOBIUM; EPILOBIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM; EUPHORBIACEAE; FIRE; FOREST; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PLANT DENSITY; REMOTE SENSING; REVEGETATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEEDLING EMERGENCE; UNITED STATES; ENVIRONMENT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METHODOLOGY; SEASON; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICS; TREE;

CONSERVATION; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; FOREST FIRES; RECOVERY; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL;

COLORADO; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRES; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SEASONS; SPACECRAFT; TREES;

EID: 84863769954     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-011-2228-y     Document Type: Article

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