Continuous 1985–2012 Landsat Monitoring to Assess Fire Effects on Meadows in Yosemite National Park, California

Continuous 1985–2012 Landsat Monitoring to Assess Fire Effects on Meadows in Yosemite National Park, California

To assess how montane meadow vegetation recovered after a wildfire that occurred in Yosemite National Park, CA in 1996, Google Earth Engine image processing was applied to leverage the entire Landsat Thematic Mapper archive from 1985 to 2012. Vegetation greenness (normalized difference vegetation in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Christopher E. Soulard, Christine M. Albano, Miguel L. Villarreal, Jessica J. Walker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-04-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
wildfire
meadow
vegetation change
NDVI
Google Earth Engine
Landsat
Sierra Nevada
Yosemite
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/8/5/371

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