Salt Marsh Monitoring in Jamaica Bay, New York from 2003 to 2013: A decade of change from restoration to hurricane sandy

Remote Sensing

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Campbell, Anthony ^a   Wang, Yeqiao ^a   Christiano, Mark ^b   Stevens, Sara ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Change analysis; Hurricane Sandy; Jamaica Bay; Long term monitoring; Worldview 2; New York; Quickbird 2; Salt marsh

Indexed keywords

HURRICANES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; RESTORATION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION; WATER;

CHANGE ANALYSIS; JAMAICA; NEW YORK; QUICKBIRD-2; SALT MARSHES; WORLDVIEW-2;

WETLANDS;

EID: 85013655055     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs9020131     Document Type: Article

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