Overview and example application of the landscape treatment designer

USDA Forest Service - General Technical Report PNW-GTR

Volumn , Issue 859, 2012, Pages 1-11

  Ager, Alan A ^a   Vaillant, Nicole M ^a   Owens, David E ^b   Brittain, Stuart ^c   Hamann, Jeff ^d  

^a Western Wildland Environmental Threat Center   (United States)

^b Bureau of Land Management   (United States)

^c Systems for Environmental Management   (United States)

^d Forest Informatics Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Forest planning; Forest restoration; Fuel treatment; Spatial optimization

Indexed keywords

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FUEL; LANDSCAPE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; POLYGON; PRIORITIZATION; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD;

OCHOCO MOUNTAINS; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84857067441     PISSN: 08874840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (6)

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