A community-based urban forest inventory using online mapping services and consumer-grade digital images

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 249-260

  Abd Elrahman, Amr H ^a   Thornhill, Mary E ^a   Andreu, Michael G ^a   Escobedo, Francisco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community involvement; Digital image; I Tree; Photogrammetry; UFORE; Web mapping

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; DIGITAL IMAGE; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; FOREST INVENTORY; MAPPING METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL;

EID: 79951981567     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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