Equations for predicting uncompacted crown ratio based on compacted crown ratio and tree attributes

Western Journal of Applied Forestry

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 260-267

  Monleon, Vicente J ^a   Azuma, David ^a   Gedney, Donald ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cross validation; Crown base height; Crown fire risk

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; FIRE PROTECTION; FUNCTIONS; HARDWOODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOFTWOODS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

COMPACTED CROWN RATIO; CROSS VALIDATION; CROWN BASED HEIGHT; CROWN FIRE RISK; CROWN RATIO ESTIMATION METHOD; NONLINEAR REGRESSION; TREE ATTRIBUTES; UNCOMPACTED CROWN RATIO;

FORESTRY;

CORRELATION; CROWN CLASSES; CROWNS; EQUATIONS; ESTIMATION; FIRE PREVENTION; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PINUS; QUERCUS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREE DIMENSIONS;

EID: 7744240723     PISSN: 08856095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/wjaf/19.4.260     Document Type: Article

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