Assessment of changes in forest coverage based on historical maps

Forestry Studies

Volumn 48, Issue , 2008, Pages 67-78

  Raet, Janar ^a   Sepp, Kalev ^a   Kaasik, Are ^a  

^a ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Forest; Forest coverage; Historical maps

Indexed keywords

EID: 58449091453     PISSN: 14069954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10132-011-0056-z     Document Type: Article

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