The use of remote sensing to characterize forest structure and improve the modeling of snow processes in extensively disturbed watersheds
The lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta) forests of British Columbia have been recently affected by mountain pine beetle (MPB) (Dendroctonus ponderosae), constituting one of the most destructive insect outbreaks in North America. In such a snow-dominated environment, a receding forest cover is associate...
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University of British Columbia
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44970 |