Landsat remote sensing of forest windfall disturbance

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 143, Issue , 2014, Pages 171-179

  Baumann, Matthias ^a   Ozdogan, Mutlu ^a   Wolter, Peter T ^b   Krylov, Alexander ^c   Vladimirova, Nadezda ^c   Radeloff, Volker C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Transparent World   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Disturbance Index; Forestness Index; Landsat; Tasseled Cap transformation; Windfall

Indexed keywords

DISTURBANCE INDEX; FORESTNESS INDEX; LANDSAT; TASSELED CAP TRANSFORMATION; WINDFALL;

ALGORITHMS; LOGGING (FORESTRY); REMOTE SENSING;

HARVESTING;

ALGORITHM; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON CYCLE; CLEARCUTTING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPERATE FOREST; TIMBER;

ALGORITHMS; HARVESTING; LOGGING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; WIND;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84893033851     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.12.020     Document Type: Article

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