Synergistic use of citizen science and remote sensing for continental-scale measurements of forest tree phenology

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Elmore, Andrew J ^a   Stylinski, Cathlyn D ^a   Pradhan, Kavya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Forest; Landscape ecology; MODIS; Phenology; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PLANTS (BOTANY); QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROMETERS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CITIZEN SCIENCE; FOREST; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MODIS; PHENOLOGY;

FORESTRY;

EID: 84974802599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8060502     Document Type: Article

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