Analyzing spatial and temporal variability in short-term rates of post-fire vegetation return from Landsat time series

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 205, Issue , 2018, Pages 32-45

  Frazier, Ryan J ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a   Wulder, Michael A ^b   Hermosilla, Txomin ^a   White, Joanne C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b PACIFIC FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal; Disturbance; Ecozone; Forest; Landsat: Time series; Recovery; Regeneration; Shield; Taiga

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FIRES; LANDSAT; REFORESTATION; REMOTE SENSING; TIME SERIES; VEGETATION;

BOREAL; DISTURBANCE; ECOZONE; FOREST; FOREST RECOVERY; LANDSAT TIME SERIES; REGENERATION; SHIELD; SPECTRAL RECOVERIES; TAIGA;

RECOVERY;

BOREAL FOREST; ECOZONE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; LANDSAT; PIXEL; RECOVERY PLAN; REGENERATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

BOREAL SHIELD; CANADA;

EID: 85034862440     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.11.007     Document Type: Article

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