Forest disturbances, forest recovery, and changes in forest types across the carpathian ecoregion from 1985 to 2010 based on landsat image composites

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 151, Issue , 2014, Pages 72-88

  Griffiths, Patrick ^a   Kuemmerle, Tobias ^a   Baumann, Matthias ^b   Radeloff, Volker C ^b   Abrudan, Ioan V ^c   Lieskovsky, Juraj ^d   Munteanu, Catalina ^b   Ostapowicz, Katarzyna ^b,e   Hostert, Patrick ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c TRANSILVANIA UNIVERSITY OF BRASOV   (Romania)

^d INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^e JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Carpathians; Change detection; Compositing; Cross border; Eastern europe; Forest disturbance; Forest inventory; Forest resources; Forest types; Landsat; Large area; Recovery

Indexed keywords

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; RECOVERY;

CARPATHIANS; CHANGE DETECTION; COMPOSITING; CROSS-BORDER; EASTERN EUROPE; FOREST DISTURBANCES; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST RESOURCES; FOREST TYPE; LANDSAT; LARGE AREA;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ECOREGION; FOREST COVER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; MAPPING; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPOSTING; EUROPE; FORESTS; INVENTORIES; PLANTATIONS; SATELLITES;

CARPATHIANS;

PICEA;

EID: 84906944030     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.04.022     Document Type: Article

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