Incorporating water quantity and quality modelling into forest management

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 338-348

  Li, Xiangfei ^a   Nour, Mohamed H ^b   Smith, Daniel W ^a   Prepas, Ellie E ^a,c   Putz, Gordon ^d   Watson, Brett M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b ISL Engineering and Land Services Ltd   (Canada)

^c LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Forest management and planning; GIS; Modelling; MODIS; Remote sensing; SWAT

Indexed keywords

DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LAND USE; MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; REMOTE SENSING; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE; FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANNING; MILLAR WESTERN FOREST PRODUCTS; MODIS; SWAT;

FORESTRY;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; LAND USE; MODELING; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; STREAMFLOW; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TIMBER HARVESTING; WATERSHED;

AGRICULTURE; ECOLOGY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GIS; HARVESTING; LAND USE; PLANNING; PROFITABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 65649138026     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc84338-3     Document Type: Article

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