Artificial neural networks as an alternative tool in pine bark volume estimation

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 235-244

  Diamantopoulou, Maria J ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Bark; Cascade correlation; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION MODELS; NONLINEAR MODELS; NONLINEAR REGRESSION; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; ERRORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PINUS BRUTIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PINUS BRUTIA;

EID: 22544487549     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2005.04.002     Document Type: Article

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