Remote sensing-based determination of understory grass greening stage over boreal forest

Journal of Applied Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hassan, Quazi K ^a   Rahman, K Mahmud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

accumulated growing degree days; moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer; normalized difference water index; understory phenology

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; RADIOMETERS; SPECTROMETERS;

GROWING DEGREE DAYS; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE WATER INDEX; PLANT COMMUNITIES; PREDICTION CAPABILITY; REMOTE SENSING DATA; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; UNDERSTORY PHENOLOGY;

REMOTE SENSING;

DEFORESTATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

EID: 84905439627     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19313195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.JRS.7.073578     Document Type: Article

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