Improving spatial distribution estimation of forest biomass with geostatistics: A case study for Rondônia, Brazil

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 205, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 221-230

  Sales, Marcio H ^a   Souza Jr , Carlos M ^a,b   Kyriakidis, Phaedon C ^b   Roberts, Dar A ^b   Vidal, Edson ^a,c  

^a Instituto do Homem e Meio Ambiente da Amazonia IMAZON   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Biomass; Brazilian Amazon; Kriging with external drift; Rond nia

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CONFORMAL MAPPING; GAS EMISSIONS; GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SAMPLING;

BIOMASS MAP; GEOSTATISTICS; SAMPLING DENSITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

BIOMASS;

ABOVEGROUND BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; GEOSTATISTICS; KRIGING; LAND COVER; LAND USE; MAPPING; SAVANNA; SOIL TEXTURE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VEGETATION TYPE;

BRAZIL; RONDONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34248191132     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2007.02.033     Document Type: Article

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