Monitoring anthropogenic disturbance trends in an industrialized boreal forest with Landsat time series

Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 783-792

  Pickell, Paul D ^a   Hermosilla, Txomin ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Masek, Jeffrey G ^b   Franks, Shannon ^c   Huang, Chengquang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c SGT INC   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TIME SERIES;

ANTHROPOGENIC CHANGES; ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; ANTHROPOGENIC FOREST; RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT; RESOURCE UTILIZATIONS; SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION; TERRESTRIAL BIOSPHERE; VEGETATION CONDITION;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BOREAL FOREST; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LANDSAT; RESOURCE USE; SATELLITE DATA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ENVIRONMENTS; IMAGES; SATELLITES;

EID: 84911386698     PISSN: 2150704X     EISSN: 21507058     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2014.967881     Document Type: Article

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