Modeling Watershed-Scale Historic Change in the Alpine Treeline Ecotone Using Random Forest

Historic changes in Alpine Treeline Ecotone were modeled using 21 topographic, climatic, geologic, and disturbance variables in a random forest model. Airborne LiDAR and oblique historic repeat photography were used to identify changes in canopy cover in the West Castle Watershed (WCW), Alberta, Can...

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Main Authors: David R. McCaffrey, Chris Hopkinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2020-11-01
Series:Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07038992.2020.1865792