Remote sensing of seasonal changes and disturbances in mangrove forest: A case study from South Florida

Ecosphere

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2016, Pages

  Zhang, Keqi ^a   Thapa, Bina ^a   Ross, Michael ^a   Gann, Daniel ^a  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chilling event; Disturbance; Freeze; Hurricane; Landsat; LiDAR; Mangrove; NDMI; NDVI; Seasonal change; South Florida; Special Feature: Extreme Cold Spells; Vegetation index

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977647272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21508925     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.1366     Document Type: Article

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