Relationships between ground-based forest data and a multiple-interpretation-based certainty map

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 619-626

  Romeo F T ^a   Lowell, Kim ^b,c  

^a Géomatique EMCO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forest inventory; Multi temporal maps; Multiple map realisations; Spatial uncertainty

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; FORESTRY; STRATIGRAPHY;

COST SAVINGS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; FOREST INVENTORY; MAPPING; TIMBER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038379404     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1364-8152(03)00037-9     Document Type: Article

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