Spatio-temporal variations in plantation forests’ disturbance and recovery of northern Guangdong Province using yearly Landsat time series observations (1986–2015)

Chinese Geographical Science

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 600-613

  Shen, Wenjuan ^a   Li, Mingshi ^a   Wei, Anshi ^b  

^a NANJING FORESTRY UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b East Guangyuan Road 2001   (China)

Author keywords

driving forces; forest disturbance and recovery; Landsat dense time series; northern Guangdong; plantation; remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LANDSAT; PLANTATION FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

CHINA; GUANGDONG;

EID: 85021187284     PISSN: 10020063     EISSN: 1993064X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11769-017-0880-z     Document Type: Article

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