The forest stand margin area in the interpretation of growing stock using Landsat TM imagery

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 303-309

  Tokola, Timo ^a   Kilpeläinen, Pertti ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY PRODUCTION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0032981407     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x98-200     Document Type: Article

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