Cross-border forest disturbance and the role of natural rubber in mainland Southeast Asia using annual Landsat time series

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 169, Issue , 2015, Pages 438-453

  Grogan, Kenneth ^a,b   Pflugmacher, Dirk ^b   Hostert, Patrick ^b   Kennedy, Robert ^c   Fensholt, Rasmus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Border; Cambodia; Change detection; Correlation; Dry deciduous; Evergreen; Frontier; Hevea brasiliensis; Land concession; Landsat; LandTrendr; Market; Plantation; Tropical; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; CORRELATION METHODS; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; MARKETING; RUBBER; RUBBER PLANTATIONS; TIME SERIES;

BORDER; CAMBODIA; CHANGE DETECTION; EVERGREEN; FRONTIER; HEVEA BRASILIENSIS; LANDSAT; LANDTRENDR; PLANTATION; TROPICAL; VIET NAM;

FORESTRY;

BORDER REGION; CORRELATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; DECIDUOUS TREE; DISTURBANCE; EVERGREEN FOREST; FRONTIER REGION; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MARKET SYSTEM; PLANTATION FORESTRY; RUBBER; TIME SERIES; TROPICAL FOREST;

CAMBODIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

HEVEA BRASILIENSIS;

EID: 84944281030     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.03.001     Document Type: Article

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