Estimation of managed loblolly pine stand age and density with Landsat ETM+ data

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 223, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 247-254

  Sivanpillai, Ramesh ^a,b   Smith, Charles T ^a   Srinivasan, R ^a   Messina, Michael G ^a   Wu, X Ben ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

ETM+; Loblolly pine forests; Pinus taeda L.; Regression analysis; Stand characteristics; Texas

Indexed keywords

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATELLITES;

ETM+; LOBLOLLY PINE FOREST; STAND CHARACTERISTICS;

FORESTRY;

ESTIMATION METHOD; INDEX METHOD; LANDSAT; STAND STRUCTURE;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; PINUS TAEDA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEXAS;

NORTH AMERICA; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

PINUS TAEDA;

EID: 32344436078     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2005.11.013     Document Type: Article

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