Differentiation of alternate harvesting practices using annual time series of landsat data

Forests

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Jarron, Lukas R ^a   Hermosilla, Txomin ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b   White, Joanne C ^b   Hobart, Geordie W ^b   Leckie, Donald G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Disturbance analysis; Harvesting; Landsat; Remote sensing; Time series

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES;

BRITISH COLUMBIA , CANADA; CLEARCUT HARVESTING; DISTURBANCE ANALYSIS; LANDSAT; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; SPECTRAL INFORMATION; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; LANDSAT; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DATA PROCESSING; HARVESTING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA;

EID: 85011269417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f8010015     Document Type: Article

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