Consistency of forest presence and biomass predictions modeled across overlapping spatial and temporal extents

Mathematical and Computational Forestry and Natural-Resource Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 102-113

  Nelson, M D ^a   Healey, S P ^b   Moser, W K ^a   Masek, J G ^c   Cohen, W B ^d  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Consistency analyses; FIA; Forest inventory; Landsat; NAFD; North american forest dynamics; Random forests

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; DECISION TREES; FORESTRY; RANDOM FORESTS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

CONSISTENCY ANALYSIS; FOREST INVENTORY; LANDSAT; NAFD; NORTH AMERICAN;

PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS;

FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MODEL VALIDATION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BIOMASS; CLASSIFICATION; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; USA;

MISSOURI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860284046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19467664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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