Modelling total volume of dominant pine trees in reforestations via multivariate analysis and artificial neural network models

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 306-315

  Diamantopoulou, Maria J ^a   Milios, Elias ^b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; REFORESTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; CASCADE CORRELATION; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTICOLLINEARITY; NON-GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; NON-LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; REGRESSION MODEL; TREE BOLE GROWTH;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ALGORITHMS; DECISION MAKING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PLANTS; REFORESTATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PINUS BRUTIA;

EID: 76749136239     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2009.11.010     Document Type: Article

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