Attribution of disturbance change agent from Landsat time-series in support of habitat monitoring in the Puget Sound region, USA

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 166, Issue , 2015, Pages 271-285

  Kennedy, Robert E ^a   Yang, Zhiqiang ^a   Braaten, Justin ^a   Copass, Catharine ^b   Antonova, Natalya ^b   Jordan, Chris ^c   Nelson, Peder ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^c Northwest Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Change attribution; Change detection; Disturbance; Landsat; LandTrendr; Puget Sound; Salmon; Time series

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATES; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CONSERVATION; DECISION TREES; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; TIME SERIES;

CHANGE ATTRIBUTION; CHANGE DETECTION; DISTURBANCE; LANDSAT; LANDTRENDR; PUGET SOUND; SALMON;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DATA INTERPRETATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSAT; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; RANDOM WALK METHOD; SALMONID; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; URBANIZATION;

PUGET SOUND; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84937972184     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.05.005     Document Type: Article

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