Characterization of aboveground biomass in an unmanaged boreal forest using Landsat temporal segmentation metrics

• Published in: ISPRS journal of photogrammetry and remote sensing Vol. 92; pp. 137 - 146
• Main Authors: Frazier, Ryan J., Coops, Nicholas C., Wulder, Michael A., Kennedy, Robert
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.06.2014; Elsevier
• Subjects: aboveground biomass; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Applied geophysics; Biological and medical sciences; Biomass; Boreal; boreal forests; Canada; Earth sciences; Earth, ocean, space; ecosystems; environmental factors; Exact sciences and technology; Forest; Forest management; Forests; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects. Techniques; Internal geophysics; inventories; Landsat; LiDAR; Multitemporal; Random forests; Segmentation; Stockpiling; Teledetection and vegetation maps; Temporal logic; Trajectories; Wetness; Canada; Multitemporal; Canada; Landsat; LiDAR; Forest; Boreal; Random forests; Boreal forest; Forest zone; Space remote sensing; Environmental factor; inventory; North America; trajectory; management; imagery; Above ground plant part; segmentation

Canada is dominated by forested ecosystems which are subject to various inventory and management practices, with more northern boreal forests subject to neither. Our objectives were to measure the capacity of temporal trajectory metrics for estimating selected forest attributes in a northern Canadia...