When characterizing the processes that shape ecosystems, ecologists increasingly use the unique perspective
offered by repeat observations of remotely sensed imagery. However, the concept of change embodied in much of
the traditional remote-sensing literature was primarily limited to capturing large or extreme changes occurring
in natural systems, omitting many more...
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When characterizing the processes that shape ecosystems, ecologists increasingly use the unique perspective
offered by repeat observations of remotely sensed imagery. However, the concept of change embodied in much of
the traditional remote-sensing literature was primarily limited to capturing large or extreme changes occurring
in natural systems, omitting many more...
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(Helmer et al. 2010). Enhanced temporal resolution also
allows direct linkage of forestdisturbance with
When characterizing the processes that shape ecosystems, ecologists increasingly use the unique perspective
offered by repeat observations of remotely sensed imagery. However, the concept of change embodied in much of
the traditional remote-sensing literature was primarily limited to capturing large or extreme changes occurring
in natural systems, omitting many more...
Disturbance events strongly affect the composition, structure, and function of forest ecosystems; however, existing US land management inventories were not designed to monitor disturbance. To begin addressing this gap, the North American Forest Dynamics (NAFD) project has examined a geographic sample of 50 Landsat satellite image time series to assess...
The history of forest change processes is written into forest age and distribution and affects earth systems at many scales. No one data set has been able to capture the full forest disturbance and land use record through time, so in this study, we combined multiple lines of evidence to...
We estimate the impact of strict and multiple use protected areas on forest disturbance in European Russia between 1985 and 2010. We construct a spatial panel dataset that includes five periods of change. We match protected areas to control observations and compare coefficients from fixed versus random effects models. We...
Evidence of shifting dominance among major forest disturbance agent classes regionally to globally has been emerging in the literature. For example, climate-related stress and secondary stressors on forests (e.g., insect and disease, fire) have dramatically increased since the turn of the century globally, while harvest rates in the western US...
Across the western US, the two most prevalent native forest insect pests are mountain pine beetle (MPB; Dendroctonus ponderosae; a bark beetle) and western spruce budworm (WSB; Choristoneura freemani; a defoliator). MPB outbreaks have received more forest management attention than WSB outbreaks, but studies to date have not compared their...
Improved monitoring of forest biomass and biomass change is needed to quantify natural and anthropogenic effects on the terrestrial carbon cycle. Landsat's temporal and spatial coverage, moderate spatial resolution, and long history of earth observations provide a unique opportunity for characterizing vegetation changes across large areas and long time scales....
Lidar is currently the most accurate method for remote estimation of forest structure, but it has limited spatial and temporal coverage. Conversely, Landsat data are more widely available, but exhibit a weaker relationship with structure under medium to high leaf area conditions. One potentially valuable means of enhancing the relationship...