Density estimation based on k-tree sampling and point pattern reconstruction

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 953-967

  Nothdurft, Arne ^a   Saborowski, Joachim ^b   Nuske, Robert S ^b   Stoyan, Dietrich ^c  

^a Forest Research Institute of Baden Wurttemberg   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY ESTIMATION; DENSITY ESTIMATOR; DISTANCE SAMPLING; EMPIRICAL CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FOREST INVENTORY; K-TREES; POINT PATTERNS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RANDOM PATTERN; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SPATIAL POINT PATTERN; STAND DENSITIES; SYSTEMATIC SAMPLING; TARGET CHARACTERISTIC; TREE DENSITY; TREE PATTERN;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ESTIMATION; REPAIR;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST INVENTORY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION MODELING; RECONSTRUCTION; SAMPLING; SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 77952000883     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/X10-046     Document Type: Article

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