Hazard ratings of pine forests to a pine wilt disease at two spatial scales (individual trees and stands) using self-organizing map and random forest

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2013, Pages 40-46

  Park, Young Seuk ^a   Chung, Yeong Jin ^b   Moon, Yil Seong ^b  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Forest Research Institute   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Forest management; Hazard rating; Pine wilt disease; Pine wood nematode; Random forest; Self organizing map

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DATA SET; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE VECTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT; NEMATODE; PEST DAMAGE; RANDOM WALK METHOD; SELF ORGANIZATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VIGOR; VOLUME; WILT;

BURSAPHELENCHUS; COLEOPTERA;

EID: 84870362751     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2012.10.008     Document Type: Article

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