Forest disturbance across the conterminous United States from 1985-2012: The emerging dominance of forest decline

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 360, Issue , 2016, Pages 242-252

  Cohen, Warren B ^a   Yang, Zhiqiang ^b   Stehman, Stephen V ^c   Schroeder, Todd A ^d   Bell, David M ^a   Masek, Jeffrey G ^e   Huang, Chengquan ^f   Meigs, Garrett W ^g  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest decline; Forest disturbance estimation; Landsat time series; Probability sampling; Remote sensing; TimeSync

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DATA VISUALIZATION; HARVESTING; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES;

FOREST DECLINE; FOREST DISTURBANCES; LANDSAT TIME SERIES; PROBABILITY SAMPLING; TIMESYNC;

FORESTRY;

CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; DISTURBANCE; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSAT; LITERATURE REVIEW; PHOTOGRAPHY; POPULATION DECLINE; PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

UNITED STATES;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84945584904     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.10.042     Document Type: Article

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