Landsat-based monitoring of annual wetland change in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, USA from 1972 to 2012

Wetlands Ecology and Management

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 73-92

  Fickas, Kate C ^a   Cohen, Warren B ^b   Yang, Zhiqiang ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Change detection; MSS; No net loss; Remote sensing; Tasseled Cap; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOODPLAIN; LAND EVALUATION; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WETLAND;

OREGON; UNITED STATES; WILLAMETTE RIVER; WILLAMETTE VALLEY;

EID: 84957940239     PISSN: 09234861     EISSN: 15729834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11273-015-9452-0     Document Type: Article

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