Forest recovery trends derived from Landsat time series for North American boreal forests

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 138-149

  Pickell, Paul D ^a   Hermosilla, Txomin ^a   Frazier, Ryan J ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; INFRARED DEVICES; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; RECOVERY; VEGETATION;

CRITICAL COMPONENT; FOREST DISTURBANCES; LANDSAT TIME SERIES; LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS; STRUCTURAL CONDITION; SUCCESSIONAL PROCESS; VEGETATION CONDITION; VEGETATION INDEX;

PIXELS;

BOREAL FOREST; FOREST RESOURCE; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; NDVI; PIXEL; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 84953310386     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2150704X.2015.1126375     Document Type: Article

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