Applying geostatistics for investigations of forest ecosystems using remote sensing imagery

Silva Fennica Monographs

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 599-617

  Zawadzki, Jarosław ^a   Cieszewski, Chris J ^b   Zasada, Michał ^c   Lowe, Roger C ^b  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Forest classification; Remote sensing; Semivariance; Semivariogram; Spatial information

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; REMOTE SENSING;

FOREST CLASSIFICATION; SEMIVARIANCE; SEMIVARIOGRAM; SPATIAL INFORMATION;

FORESTRY;

FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GEOSTATISTICS; REMOTE SENSING;

ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION;

EID: 29844450348     PISSN: 14577356     EISSN: 14577356     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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