Monitoring vegetation response to episodic disturbance events by using multitemporal vegetation indices

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 63, Issue SPL.ISSUE, 2013, Pages 118-130

  Steyer, Gregory D ^a   Couvillion, Brady R ^a   Barras, John A ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; coastal wetlands; Hurricane Katrina; Hurricane Rita; marsh vegetation communities; MODIS; multitemporal imagery; NDVI; spectral vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WETLAND; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DAMAGE; DISTURBANCE; EPISODIC EVENT; HABITAT TYPE; HURRICANE KATRINA 2005; HURRICANE RITA 2005; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MARSH; MODIS; NDVI; PHENOLOGY; PLANT COMMUNITY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VIGOR;

LOUISIANA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879615501     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: 15515036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/SI63-011.1     Document Type: Article

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