Continental-scale quantification of post-fire vegetation greenness recovery in temperate and boreal North America

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 199, Issue , 2017, Pages 277-290

  Yang, Jia ^a   Pan, Shufen ^a,b   Dangal, Shree ^a   Zhang, Bowen ^a   Wang, Siyuan ^a,c   Tian, Hanqin ^a,b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Fire regimes; Natural disturbance; Remote sensing; Temperate and boreal ecosystems; Vegetation recovery

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE MODELS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PIXELS; RADIOMETERS; RECOVERY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; VEGETATION;

BOREAL ECOSYSTEMS; FIRE REGIMES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; PARAMETERIZATION SCHEMES; SATELLITE-BASED ANALYSIS; VEGETATION RECOVERY;

FIRES;

ATMOSPHERE-BIOSPHERE INTERACTION; BOREAL FOREST; CARBON CYCLE; DATA SET; DISTURBANCE; ECOREGION; FIRE; MODIS; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPERATE FOREST; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM; VEGETATION STRUCTURE; VEGETATION TYPE;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 85026305825     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.07.022     Document Type: Article

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