Interpretation of forest disturbance using a time series of Landsat imagery and canopy structure from airborne lidar

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 521-542

  Ahmed, Oumer S ^a   Franklin, Steven E ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; OPTICAL RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVEGETATION; SOIL CONSERVATION; TIME SERIES; TRAJECTORIES;

BRITISH COLUMBIA , CANADA; CHARACTERIZATION METHODS; FOREST STRUCTURAL CONDITIONS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; NON-PHOTOSYNTHETIC VEGETATION; SPECTRAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPECTRAL MIXTURE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL VARIABILITY;

FORESTRY;

CONSERVATION; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL;

EID: 84896380071     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m14-004     Document Type: Article

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