Using self-organizing maps in the visualization and analysis of forest inventory

IForest

Volumn 5, Issue OCTOBER 2012, 2012, Pages 216-223

  Klobucar, Damir ^a   Subasic, Marko ^b  

^a Hrvatske sume Ltd   (Croatia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Forest Data Visualization; Forest Inventory; Neural Networks; Self organizing Maps; Stand Structural Parameters

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869484979     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19717458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3832/ifor0629-005     Document Type: Article

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