Improving local forest volume estimates by fusion of multi-temporal forest type maps

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 373-385

  De Groeve, Tom ^a   Lowell, Kim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data integration; Geomatics; Map overlay; Spatial uncertainty; Wood volume estimation

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; FORESTRY; REMOTE SENSING;

GEOMATICS; MULTI-TEMPORAL FORESTS; WOOD VOLUME ESTIMATIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST RESOURCE; MAPPING; VOLUME;

CANADA;

EID: 0034047164     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-8152(00)00017-7     Document Type: Article

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