Mapping forest growth and decline in a temperate mixed forest using temporal trend analysis of Landsat imagery, 1987-2010

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 141, Issue , 2014, Pages 188-200

  Czerwinski, Chris J ^a   King, Douglas J ^a   Mitchell, Scott W ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Empirical modeling; Forest change; Landsat time series; Temporal trend analysis

Indexed keywords

LAND USE; MAPPING;

ANTHROPOGENIC PROCESS; ECONOMIC OBJECTIVES; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; EMPIRICAL MODEL; FOREST CHANGE; MANN-KENDALL TRENDS; TASSELED CAP WETNESS; TEMPORAL TRENDS;

FORESTRY;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BASAL AREA; CALIBRATION; CLEAR SKY; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DECISION MAKING; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LAND MANAGEMENT; LANDSAT; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MIXED FOREST; REGROWTH; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUSTAINABILITY; TEMPERATE FOREST; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES;

FORESTRY; LAND USE; MAPPING; SATELLITES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CANADA; GATINEAU PARK; QUEBEC [CANADA];

EID: 84888401472     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.11.006     Document Type: Article

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