Detecting post-fire salvage logging from Landsat change maps and national fire survey data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 122, Issue , 2012, Pages 166-174

  Schroeder, Todd A ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b   Healey, Sean P ^a   Moisen, Gretchen G ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Change detection; Landsat time series; National fire survey data; Post fire salvage logging

Indexed keywords

BOREAL FORESTS; BURNED AREAS; CANADIAN BOREAL FOREST; CHANGE DETECTION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA INTEGRATION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS; ECONOMIC LOSS; FOREST MANAGEMENT AREAS; INDUSTRIAL WOOD; LANDSAT; MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT; MULTIPLE DISTURBANCE; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; POST-FIRE; REFERENCE DATA; SALVAGE HARVESTING; SALVAGE LOGGING; SASKATCHEWAN , CANADA; STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING; STUDY AREAS; SURVEY DATA; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

FORESTRY; HARVESTING; LOSSES; SIGNAL DETECTION; SURVEYS;

FIRES;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BOREAL FOREST; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; LANDSAT; LOGGING (TIMBER); OUTCROP; SALVAGING; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION MAPPING; WILDFIRE; WOOD;

CANADA; FOREST FIRES; HARVESTING; LOGGING; MAPS; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CANADA; SASKATCHEWAN;

EID: 84865431099     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.10.031     Document Type: Article

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