Monitoring of vegetation impact due to trampling on cadillac mountain summit using high spatial resolution remote sensing data sets

Environmental Management

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 956-968

  Kim, Min Kook ^a   Daigle, John J ^b  

^a MARSHALL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Management; Monitoring; Recreation; Remote sensing; Trampling; Vegetation

Indexed keywords

CADILLACS; CONTROL SITES; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INTENSIVE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT IMPLICATIONS; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; MULTI-SPECTRAL; NATIONAL PARKS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PHYSICAL BARRIERS; RADIAL PATTERNS; RECREATION; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SPATIAL EXTENT; SPATIAL SCALE; TOURIST DESTINATIONS; TRAMPLING; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION RECOVERY;

MANAGEMENT; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING;

VEGETATION;

DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MOUNTAIN; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; NDVI; PROTECTED AREA; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION COVER;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LANDSCAPE; REMOTE SENSING; REVEGETATION; TOURISM; UNITED STATES; VEGETATION;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PLANTS; RECREATION; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY;

CADILLAC MOUNTAIN; MAINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867579056     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-012-9905-7     Document Type: Article

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