Monitoring landscape change in multi-use west-central Alberta, Canada using the disturbance-inventory framework

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 125, Issue , 2012, Pages 112-124

  Linke, Julia ^a   McDermid, Gregory J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Backdating; Forestry; Human footprint; Land cover change; Landscape pattern analysis; Multi temporal image analysis; Object based remote sensing; Oil and gas wells; Roads; Updating

Indexed keywords

BACKDATING; HUMAN FOOTPRINTS; LAND-COVER CHANGE; LANDSCAPE PATTERN ANALYSIS; MULTITEMPORAL IMAGE ANALYSIS; OBJECT BASED; OIL AND GAS WELL; ROADS; UPDATING;

BIODIVERSITY; COAL MINES; GAS INDUSTRY; LANDFORMS; NATURAL GAS WELLS; REMOTE SENSING; TIMBER;

FORESTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; GAS WELL; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INVENTORY; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MONITORING; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; OIL WELL; PATCH SIZE; ROAD CONSTRUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRACKING;

ALBERTA; COAL; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; MINERALS; OIL; PATTERNS; REMOTE SENSING; ROADS;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

EID: 84864808682     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.07.011     Document Type: Article

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