The changing California coast: Relationships between climatic variables and coastal vegetation succession

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference 2012, ASPRS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 247-258

  Hsu, Wei Chen ^a,h   Remar, Alex ^b,h   Williams, Emily ^c,h   McClure, Adam ^d,h   Kannan, Soumya ^e,h   Steers, Robert ^f,h   Schmidt, Cindy ^g,h   Skiles, J W ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Gunn High School   (United States)

^f NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^g BAY AREA ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^h NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

California; Classification; Climate; Fog; GIS; Land cover; Landsat TM; Precipitation; Remote sensing; Succession; Temperature; Vegetation change

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CLIMATE; LAND COVER; LANDSAT TM; SUCCESSION; VEGETATION CHANGE;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLIMATE CHANGE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; FOG; FORESTRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERFACE STATES; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE; WATER SUPPLY;

VEGETATION;

CALIFORNIA; CLIMATES; FORESTRY; GIS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PLANTS; PRECIPITATION; REMOTE SENSING; TEMPERATURE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 84873504618     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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