Comparison of spatial prediction techniques for developing Pinus radiata productivity surfaces across New Zealand

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2046-2055

  Palmer, D J ^a,b   Hock B K ^a   Kimberley, M O ^a   Watt, M S ^a   Lowe, D J ^b   Payn, T W ^a  

^a SCION   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Inverse distance weighting; National scale modelling; New Zealand; Ordinary kriging; Plantation forestry; Regression kriging; Spatial modelling

Indexed keywords

INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTING; NATIONAL SCALE MODELLING; NEW ZEALAND; ORDINARY KRIGING; PLANTATION FORESTRY; REGRESSION KRIGING; SPATIAL MODELLING;

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; FORECASTING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERPOLATION; PRODUCTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCALES (WEIGHING INSTRUMENTS); TIMBER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FORESTRY;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FOREST DYNAMICS; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; PLANTATION FORESTRY; PRODUCTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREE;

COMPOSITES; FORECASTS; FORESTRY; FORESTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PLANTATIONS; PRODUCTIVITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

PINUS RADIATA;

EID: 70349284427     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.07.057     Document Type: Article

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