Spatial stratification in forest modelling

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 311-317

  Nurullah, A M M ^a   Jordan, Glen A ^a   Baskent, Emin Zeki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Forest management; Heuristic optimization; Spatial forest modelling; Spatial stratification

Indexed keywords

HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; THERMAL STRATIFICATION;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; SPATIAL FOREST MODELING;

FORESTRY;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; MODELING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STRATIFICATION;

EID: 0034159845     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc76311-2     Document Type: Article

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