Stratified estimation of forest area using satellite imagery, inventory data, and the k-Nearest Neighbors technique

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 82, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 457-468

  McRoberts, Ronald E ^a   Nelson, Mark D ^a   Wendt, Daniel G ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; DATA ACQUISITION; MAPPING; SAMPLING;

STRATIFIED ESTIMATION;

FORESTRY;

FOREST; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

UNITED STATES;

NEOPLEA;

EID: 0036789610     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(02)00064-0     Document Type: Article

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