Boreal Shield forest disturbance and recovery trends using Landsat time series

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 170, Issue , 2015, Pages 317-327

  Frazier, Ryan J ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal; Boreal Shield; Disturbance; Forest; Landsat; Multitemporal; Recovery; Time series

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; TIME SERIES; TRAJECTORIES;

BOREAL; DISTURBANCE; FOREST; LANDSAT; MULTI-TEMPORAL;

RECOVERY;

BOREAL FOREST; DISTURBANCE; ECOZONE; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SUCCESSION; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 84943575574     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.09.015     Document Type: Article

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