Experimenting the design-based k-NN approach for mapping and estimation under forest management planning

IForest

Volumn 5, Issue FEBRUARY, 2012, Pages 26-30

  Mattioli, Walter ^a   Quatrini, Valerio ^a   di Paolo, Silvia ^a   di Santo, Daniele ^b   Giuliarelli, Diego ^a   Angelini, Alice ^a   Portoghesi, Luigi ^a   Corona, Piermaria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b Gran Sasso and Monti della Laga National Park   (Italy)

Author keywords

Estimation; Forest management planning; K Nearest Neighbors; Landsat; Mapping

Indexed keywords

DELLA;

EID: 84861760853     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19717458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3832/ifor0604-009     Document Type: Article

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