Detecting forest disturbance in the Pacific Northwest from MODIS time series using temporal segmentation

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 151, Issue , 2014, Pages 114-123

  Sulla Menashe, Damien ^a   Kennedy, Robert E ^a   Yang, Zhiqiang ^b   Braaten, Justin ^b   Krankina, Olga N ^b   Friedl, Mark A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; Forest disturbance; MODIS; Northwest forest plan; Temporal segmentation; Time series

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PIXELS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES;

CHANGE DETECTION; FOREST DISTURBANCES; MODIS; NORTHWEST FOREST PLAN; TEMPORAL SEGMENTATIONS;

RADIOMETERS;

ALGORITHM; FOREST COVER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MODIS; PHYSICAL DISTURBANCE; TIME SERIES;

FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RADIOMETRY; SATELLITES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84906944785     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.07.042     Document Type: Article

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