High-resolution global maps of 21st-century annual forest loss: Independent accuracy assessment and application in a temperate forest region of Atlantic Canada

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 188, Issue , 2017, Pages 164-176

  Linke, Julia ^a   Fortin, Marie Josée ^a   Courtenay, Simon ^b   Cormier, Roland ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Clear cutting; Forest harvesting; Forest loss; Landsat; Miramichi River; Monitoring; Multi temporal analysis; Object based validation

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; GEOMETRY; HARVESTING; MONITORING; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FOREST HARVESTING; FOREST LOSS; LANDSAT; MIRAMICHI; MULTI-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; OBJECT BASED;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CENSUS; CLEARCUTTING; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST INVENTORY; HARVESTING; LANDSAT; MODEL VALIDATION; POLYGON; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPERATE FOREST; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; VEGETATION MAPPING;

ATLANTIC COAST [CANADA]; ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; CANADA; MIRAMICHI RIVER; NEW BRUNSWICK;

EID: 84996524108     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2016.10.040     Document Type: Article

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