Estimating forest characteristics in scanned aerial photographs with respect to requirements for economic forest management planning

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 189-199

  Holmgren, Peter ^a   Thuresson, Tomas ^a   Holm, Sören ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Forest inventory; Forest management planning; GIS; GPS; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030660138     PISSN: 02827581     EISSN: 16511891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02827589709355400     Document Type: Article

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