Integrating ecosystem sampling, gradient modeling, remote sensing, and ecosystem simulation to create spatially explicit landscape inventories

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report RMRS-GTR

Volumn , Issue 92 RMRS-GTR, 2002, Pages 1-62

  Keane, Robert E ^a   Rollins, Matthew G ^a   McNicoll, Cecilia H ^b   Parsons, Russell A ^a  

^a ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem management; Ecosystem simulation; Geographic information systems; Gradient modeling; Predictive landscape mapping; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

DATABASE; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; GIS; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE; MAPPING; NATURAL RESOURCE; REMOTE SENSING; SAMPLING; SPATIAL DATA;

LEIS; THUJA PLICATA;

EID: 34247373858     PISSN: 02775786     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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