Estimating forest data for analyses of forest production and utilization possibilities at local level by means of multi-source National Forest Inventory

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 262, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1345-1359

  Mäkelä, Helena ^a   Hirvelä, Hannu ^a   Nuutinen, Tuula ^a   Kärkkäinen, Leena ^a  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forest inventory; Forest management planning; Forest scenario analyses; K Nearest neighbour estimation; Satellite images

Indexed keywords

FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANNING; K NEAREST NEIGHBOUR ESTIMATION; SATELLITE IMAGES; SCENARIO ANALYSIS;

ESTIMATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PARKS; PIXELS; PLANNING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIMBER;

FORESTRY;

FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; LANDSAT; NATIONAL PARK; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; PIXEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TIMBER; VOLUME;

ESTIMATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; FORESTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PLANNING; SATELLITES;

FINLAND;

PICEA;

EID: 80051826254     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2011.06.027     Document Type: Article

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