Monitoring landscape change in multi-use west-central Alberta, Canada using the disturbance-inventory framework

• Published in: Remote sensing of environment Vol. 125; pp. 112 - 124
• Main Authors: Linke, Julia, McDermid, Gregory J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Elsevier Inc 01.10.2012; Elsevier
• Subjects: Alberta; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Applied geophysics; Backdating; biodiversity; Biological and medical sciences; coal; Earth sciences; Earth, ocean, space; Exact sciences and technology; Forestry; forests; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects. Techniques; harvesting; Human footprint; humans; Internal geophysics; land cover; Land-cover change; Landscape pattern analysis; landscapes; monitoring; Multi-temporal image analysis; Object-based remote sensing; Oil and gas wells; oils; pipelines; remote sensing; Roads; Teledetection and vegetation maps; Updating; wells; Alberta; Canada; Western Canada; Oil and gas wells; Object-based remote sensing; Roads; Forestry; Human footprint; Updating; Landscape pattern analysis; Land-cover change; Backdating; Multi-temporal image analysis; temporal distribution; Effort; species diversity; industry; global; inventory; North America; collecting; Innovation; annual variations; automation; Procedure; land cover; Anthropogenic factor; landscapes; Thematic map; Forest zone; land cover maps; Trend; remote sensing; Map(geography); Perturbation; Spatial distribution; Ecological map; Environmental monitoring; Multidate observation; frame structure
• ISSN: 0034-4257; 1879-0704
• DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.07.011

Human disturbances are a major driver of biodiversity declines world-wide, and the intensely used Alberta forest landscape is no exception to this trend. Monitoring of such large areas is typically conducted via multi-temporal land-cover maps from remote sensing, but automated and efficient procedur...