Mapping post-fire habitat characteristics through the fusion of remote sensing tools

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 173, Issue , 2016, Pages 294-303

  Vogeler, Jody C ^a   Yang, Zhiqiang ^a   Cohen, Warren B ^a,b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitat; Landsat time series; Lidar; Maps; Post fire; Shrub cover; Snags

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ERRORS; FIRES; FORESTRY; MAPPING; MAPS; OPTICAL RADAR; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TIME SERIES;

HABITAT; LANDSAT TIME SERIES; POST-FIRE; SHRUB COVER; SNAGS;

REMOTE SENSING;

HABITAT AVAILABILITY; LANDSAT; LIDAR; LOGGING (TIMBER); MAPPING METHOD; MODEL VALIDATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SHRUB; SNAG; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNDERSTORY; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION MAPPING; WILDFIRE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84951768126     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.08.011     Document Type: Article

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