Regional rates of young US forest growth estimated from annual Landsat disturbance history and IKONOS stereo imagery》.pdf

RSE-09541; No of Pages 12 Remote Sensing of Environment xxx (2015) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Remote Sensing of Environment journal h omepage: /locate/rse Regional rates of young US forest growth estimated from annual Landsat disturbance history and IKONOS stereo imagery Christopher S.R. Neigh a,⁎, Jeffrey G. Masek a, Paul Bourget b, Khaldoun Rishmawi c, Feng Zhao c, Chengquan Huan c, Bruce D. Cook a, Ross F. Nelson a a Biospheric Sciences Laboratory, Code 618, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, United States b Geography-Anthropology Program, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, PO Box 9300, Portland, ME 04104, USA c Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Forests of the Contiguous United States (CONUS) have been found to be a large contributor to the global atmo- Received 25 February 2015 spheric carbon sink. The magnitude and nature of this sink is still uncertain and recent studies have sought to de- Received in revised form 25 August 2015 fine the dynamics that control its strength and longevity. The Landsat series of satellites has been a vital resource Accepted 21 September 2015 to understand the long-term changes in land cover that can impact ecosystem function and terrestrial carbon Available online xxxx stock. We combine annual Landsat forest disturbance history from 1985 to 2011 with single