Assessing species density and abundance of tropical trees from remotely sensed data and geostatistics

Applied Vegetation Science

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 398-414

  Hernandez Stefanoni, J Luis ^a   Dupuy, Juan Manuel ^a   Castillo Santiago, M Angel ^b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE CONSERVACIÓN DE LA BIODIVERSIDAD   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Abundance of tree species; Akaike information criterion; Image texture; Regression kriging; Tree species richness; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949445434     PISSN: 14022001     EISSN: 1654109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-109X.2009.01044.x     Document Type: Article

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