Filling gaps in diameter measurements on standing tree boles in the urban forest of Thessaloniki, Greece

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1857-1865

  Diamantopoulou, Maria J ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Back propagation; Cascade correlation; Diameter measurements; Kalman learning rule; Neural networks; Pine tree

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK MODELS; CASCADE CORRELATION; DIAMETER MEASUREMENT; DIAMETER MEASUREMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS; FILLING GAPS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INCOMPLETE DATA; LEARNING RULES; MISSING DATA; MISSING DATA ESTIMATION; MISSING DATA PROBLEM; MISSING VALUES; NEW APPROACHES; PINE TREES; PRIMARY DATA; STANDING TREE; STATISTICAL PROBLEMS; THESSALONIKI , GREECE; URBAN FORESTS;

BACKPROPAGATION; FILLING; FORESTRY; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

NEURAL NETWORKS;

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONIFEROUS TREE; CORRELATION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DIAMETER; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; TREE STUMP; URBAN FORESTRY;

CORRELATION; DIAMETER; ESTIMATION; FILLING; FOREST MANAGEMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS; PINUS; RESEARCH;

CENTRAL MACEDONIA; GREECE; THESSALONIKI [CENTRAL MACEDONIA]; THESSALONIKI [THESSALONIKI (DPR)];

THESSALONIKI;

EID: 84555192942     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.04.020     Document Type: Article

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