Mapping Fire Scars and Marsh Recovery with Remote Sensing Data

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 415-438

  Ramsey III, Elijah ^a   Rangoonwala, Amina ^b   Baarnes, Frank ^b   Spell, Ruth ^b  

^a NATIONAL WETLANDS RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Canopy Structure; Normalize Difference Vegetation Index; Remote Sensing Data; Synthetic Aperture Radar; Thematic Mapper Image

Indexed keywords

MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING;

CANOPY STRUCTURE; FIRE SCARS; NORMALIZE DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; REMOTE SENSING DATA; THEMATIC MAPPER IMAGES; VEGETATION INDEX;

SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

EID: 84888118829     PISSN: 18632246     EISSN: 18632351     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-88183-4_18     Document Type: Chapter

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