Estimating the volume of forest growing stock using auxiliary information derived from relascope or ocular assessments

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 257, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2108-2114

  Corona, Piermaria ^a   Fattorini, Lorenzo ^b   Franceschi, Sara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Double expansion estimators; Forest inventory by compartments; Monte Carlo studies; Ratio estimators; Two phase sampling

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE-EXPANSION ESTIMATORS; FOREST INVENTORY BY COMPARTMENTS; MONTE CARLO STUDIES; RATIO ESTIMATORS; TWO-PHASE SAMPLING;

FORESTRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CALIBRATION; DECIDUOUS FOREST; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST INVENTORY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

ESTIMATION; FORESTS; GROWTH; INVENTORIES; PARAMETERS; SAMPLING;

FAGUS;

EID: 63749115546     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.02.017     Document Type: Article

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