Assessment of carbon storage and biomass on minelands reclaimed to grassland environments using Landsat spectral indices

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Kazar, Sheila A ^a   Warner, Timothy A ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biomass; carbon; reclamation; surface mining; tasseled cap

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON; FORESTRY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; INFRARED DEVICES; LAND RECLAMATION; MINING; OPEN PIT MINING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

ENHANCED THEMATIC MAPPERS; ENHANCED VEGETATION INDEX; NONLINEAR PATTERN; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SPECTRAL INDICES; TASSELED CAP; TASSELED CAP TRANSFORMATION; VEGETATION RECOVERY;

RECLAMATION;

EID: 84893853746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.7.073583     Document Type: Article

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