Relationships between hyperspectral data and components of vegetation biomass in Low Arctic tundra communities at Ivotuk, Alaska

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Bratsch, Sara ^a   Epstein, Howard ^a   Buchhorn, Marcel ^b,c   Walker, Donald ^b   Landes, Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c FLEMISH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH VITO   (Belgium)

Author keywords

arctic transitions in the land atmosphere system (ATLAS); north American arctic transect (NAAT); spectroscopy; tundra vegetation communities; vegetation biomass

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTROSCOPY; VEGETATION;

ARCTIC TRANSITIONS IN THE LAND-ATMOSPHERE SYSTEM (ATLAS); HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; HYPERSPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING DATA; NORTH AMERICAN; PLANT FUNCTIONAL TYPE; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCES; TUNDRA VEGETATION; VEGETATION BIOMASS;

BIOMASS;

AIR-SOIL INTERACTION; BIOMASS; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MOSS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SHRUB; SPECTRAL REFLECTANCE; SPECTROSCOPY; TUNDRA; VEGETATION COVER; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

ALASKA; ARCTIC; IVOTUK; NORTH SLOPE; UNITED STATES;

BRYOPHYTA;

EID: 85015782675     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/aa572e     Document Type: Article

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