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Understanding changes in forest cover and carbon storage in early successional forests of the Pacific Northwest using USDA Forest Service FIA and multi-temporal Landsat data

Creator:

Schroeder, Todd A.

Abstract:

To effectively study dynamic processes like forest succession over long time periods one must effectively integrate data collected at many different times, locations and spatial scales. The purpose of this research is to integrate forest inventory data collected by the USDA Forest Service’s Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program with...

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Dissertation

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; Tappeiner et al., 1997; and Yang et al., 2005) and delay (i.e., time to reach 5% canopy cover). While