Trends in Greenness and Snow Cover in Alaska’s Arctic National Parks, 2000–2016

• Published in: Remote Sensing
• Main Author: David Swanson
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2017
• Subjects: phenology; greenness; snow; NDVI; Alaska; Arctic; tundra; Kendall; Tundra
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9060514

In cold-limited arctic environments, the duration and timing of the snow cover and the vegetation green season have major ecological implications. I monitored the phenology of snow cover and greenness using MODIS Terra satellite data for the years 2000 to 2016 in the 5 National Parks of northern Ala...