Timber age verification using historical satellite image analysis

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 236, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 315-323

  Heo, Joon ^a   Kim, Jong Hong ^a   Park, Ji Sang ^b   Sohn, Hong Gyoo ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

^b Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Change detection; GIS; Historical satellite image; Timber inventory

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

CHANGE DETECTION; HISTORICAL SATELLITE IMAGE; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI); TIMBER INVENTORY;

TIMBER;

AGE DETERMINATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INVERSE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIMBER;

AGE; FORESTS; GIS; PLANTS;

EID: 33751252821     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2006.09.023     Document Type: Article

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