Estimation and use of continuous surfaces of forest parameters: Options for lithuanian forest inventory

Baltic Forestry

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Mozgeris, Gintautas ^a  

^a VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Forest inventory; K nearest neighbour; Pixel level forest characteristics; Regression; Satellite images; Segmentation; Two phase sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 59449088608     PISSN: 13921355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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