Quantifying tree cover in the forest-grassland ecotone of British Columbia using crown delineation and pattern detection

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 212, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 92-100

  Bai, Y ^a   Walsworth, N ^b   Roddan, B ^c   Hill, D A ^b   Broersma, K ^c   Thompson, D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

^c AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aerial photograph; Digital image analysis; Geo registration; Maximum likelihood classifier; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ECOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REMOTE SENSING;

ECOTONE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS; TREE COVER; TREE CROWNS;

FORESTRY;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; GIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION COVER;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; COMPUTER PROGRAMS; ECOLOGY; ERRORS; FORESTS; GIS; GRASS LANDS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 20444393472     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.03.005     Document Type: Article

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