Tracking disturbance-regrowth dynamics in tropical forests using structural change detection and Landsat time series

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 169, Issue , 2015, Pages 320-334

  DeVries, Ben ^a   Decuyper, Mathieu ^a,b   Verbesselt, Jan ^a   Zeileis, Achim ^c   Herold, Martin ^a   Joseph, Shijo ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Disturbance regrowth dynamics; Landsat; Structural change monitoring; Time series analysis; Tropical forests

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; DYNAMICS; MONITORING; PIXELS; TROPICS;

DATA-DRIVEN ALGORITHM; DATA-DRIVEN APPROACH; LANDSAT; MONITORING FRAMEWORKS; STRUCTURAL CHANGE DETECTIONS; TROPICAL DEFORESTATION; TROPICAL FOREST; TROPICAL FOREST LANDSCAPES;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DETECTION METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST DYNAMICS; LANDSAT; PIXEL; REGROWTH; SATELLITE DATA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRACKING; TROPICAL FOREST;

FORESTS; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TROPICAL ATMOSPHERES;

MADRE DE DIOS; PERU;

EID: 84941059657     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.08.020     Document Type: Article

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