Potential for wider application of 3P sampling in forest inventory

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1500-1508

  West, P W ^a  

^a SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY VARIABLES; FOREST AREA; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST POPULATIONS; MATHEMATICAL APPROACH; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; PROBABILITY PROPORTIONAL; SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING; TIMBER SALES; TREE STEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORESTRY; MONTE CARLO METHODS;

SAMPLING;

FOREST INVENTORY; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TIMBER; VOLUME;

ANIMALS; FORESTRY; FORESTS; NORTH AMERICA; PLANTS; SAMPLING; SIMULATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 79960770474     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/x11-062     Document Type: Article

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