Using Landsat to Assess the Relationship Between Spatiotemporal Patterns of Western Spruce Budworm Outbreaks and Regional-Scale Weather Variability

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 706-718

  Senf, Cornelius ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b   Campbell, Elizabeth M ^b   Hostert, Patrick ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL TEMPERATURES; AUTUMN PRECIPITATION; LANDSAT TIME SERIES; PRECIPITATION ANOMALIES; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; SPRING TEMPERATURES; SUMMER PRECIPITATION; WEATHER VARIABILITY;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84986211920     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07038992.2016.1220828     Document Type: Article

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