Characterizing residual structure and forest recovery following high-severity fire in the western boreal of Canada using Landsat time-series and airborne lidar data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 163, Issue , 2015, Pages 48-60

  Bolton, Douglas K ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disturbance mapping; Forest succession; Image classification; Remote sensing; Structural development

Indexed keywords

FIRES; FORESTRY; HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME SERIES;

AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA; DISTRIBUTION SHAPES; DISTURBANCE MAPPINGS; FOREST SUCCESSION; LANDSAT TIME SERIES; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 84937761799     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.03.004     Document Type: Article

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