Multi-scale sensitivity of Landsat and MODIS to forest disturbance associated with tropical cyclones

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 140, Issue , 2014, Pages 679-689

  Negrón Juárez, Robinson ^a,b,c   Baker, David B ^a   Chambers, Jeffrey Q ^a,c   Hurtt, George C ^d   Goosem, Stephen ^e  

^a Tulane University   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e Wet Tropics Mgmt Authority   (Australia)

Author keywords

Multispectral data; Topography; Tree mortality; Tree species; Tropical cyclone surface winds; Tropical cyclones

Indexed keywords

MULTI-SPECTRAL DATA; SURFACE WINDS; TREE MORTALITY; TREE SPECIES; TROPICAL CYCLONE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; HURRICANES; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STORMS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY; WIND;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA SET; DISTURBANCE; EXTREME EVENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MODIS; MORTALITY; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; RAINFOREST; ROOT SYSTEM; SATELLITE DATA; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE WIND; TEMPERATE FOREST; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; TROPICAL CYCLONE; WIND VELOCITY;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HAZARDS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES; SEASONAL VARIATION;

AUSTRALIA; GULF COAST [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886444601     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.09.028     Document Type: Article

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