Integrating a process-based ecosystem model with Landsat imagery to assess impacts of forest disturbance on terrestrial carbon dynamics: Case studies in Alabama and Mississippi

Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1208-1224

  Chen, Guangsheng ^a   Tian, Hanqin ^a   Huang, Chengquan ^b   Prior, Stephen A ^c   Pan, Shufen ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon dynamics; Dynamic Land Ecosystem Model (DLEM); forest disturbance; Landsat imagery; the southern United States

Indexed keywords

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DISTURBANCE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HURRICANE; LANDSAT; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TIMBER HARVESTING;

ALABAMA; MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886656241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21698961     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jgrg.20098     Document Type: Article

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