Abstract
A survey was made of three large peat basins in boreal North America with Landsat TM imagery and field sampling. False-color composites composed of Bands 2, 3, and 4 are particularly effective in discriminating the major vegetation types and the important hydrogeochemical processes in these peatlands. This imagery indicates that the discharge of alkaline groundwater provides one of the most important regional and local controls on peatland development.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 109-119 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Remote Sensing of Environment |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue number | C |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1989 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by Grant NAS5-28740 flora the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Locke Stuart, Mark Emmons, and Barbara Stiles of the Goddard Space Flight Center provided special color products and image processing. I wish to thank H. E. Wright, #. and two anonymous reviewers for editing the manuscript,