A three-phase sampling strategy for large-scale multiresource forest inventories

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 296-316

  Fattorini, Lorenzo ^a   Marcheselli, Marzia ^a   Pisani, Caterina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Areal extent estimation; Biomass estimation; Design based approach; Multi phase sampling

Indexed keywords

AREAL INTERPOLATION; BIOMASS; FOREST INVENTORY; SAMPLING;

EID: 33748658662     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/108571106X130548     Document Type: Article

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