Dynamics and Drivers of the Alpine Timberline on Gongga Mountain of Tibetan Plateau-Adopted from the Otsu Method on Google Earth Engine - He, Wen; Ye, Chongchong; Sun, Jian; Xiong, Junnan; Wang, Jinniu; Zhou, Tiancai (Remote sensing (Basel, Switzerland), 2020)
Keywords: Accuracy; Algorithms; Alpine environments; alpine timberline; altitude; area; Biodiversity; China; climate; Climate change; Climate effects; Dynamics; Earth; Ecosystems; ecotones; Elevation; Global warming; Gongga Mountain; Google Earth engine; Heterogeneity; hills; humans; Internet; Landsat satellites; monitoring; Mountains; normalized difference vegetation index; Normalized difference vegetative index; Otsu method; Precipitation; principal component analysis; Principal components analysis; Regression analysis; Remote sensing; Researchers; Seasons; Software; Spatial heterogeneity; spatial variation; Timberline; timberline dynamics; Topography; treeline; Vegetation; Vegetation index; Zonation; Tibetan Plateau; China