Season spotter: Using citizen science to validate and scale plant phenology from near-surface remote sensing

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Kosmala, Margaret ^a   Crall, Alycia ^b   Cheng, Rebecca ^b   Hufkens, Koen ^a   Henderson, Sandra ^b   Richardson, Andrew D ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL OBSERVATORY NETWORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen science; Crowdsourcing; Landscape ecology; Pheno Cam; Phenology; Spatial scaling vegetation indices

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; BIOSPHERICS; CAMERAS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROWDSOURCING; DATA HANDLING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

BIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION; BIOSPHERE-ATMOSPHERE INTERACTIONS; CITIZEN SCIENCE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING IMAGERY; REPRODUCTIVE PHENOLOGY; VEGETATION INDEX;

FORESTRY;

EID: 85016617280     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8090726     Document Type: Article

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