Remote sensing measures restoration successes, but canopy heights lag in restoring floodplain vegetation

Remote Sensing

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Dawson, Samantha K ^a   Fisher, Adrian ^a,b   Lucas, Richard ^a   Hutchinson, David K ^c   Berney, Peter ^d   Keith, David ^a   Catford, Jane A ^e,f   Kingsford, Richard T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chronosequence; Cultivation; Drought; Environmental flows; Floods; Fractional cover; Land use

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CULTIVATION; DROUGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; FLOODS; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT; AGRICULTURAL LAND USE; CHRONOSEQUENCES; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; FRACTIONAL COVER; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; REMOTE SENSING ANALYSIS; REMOTELY SENSED DATA;

RESTORATION;

EID: 85019933078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs8070542     Document Type: Article

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