Mapping tropical forest trees using high-resolution aerial digital photographs

Biotropica

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 308-316

  Garzon Lopez, Carol X ^a   Bohlman, Stephanie A ^b,c   Olff, Han ^a   Jansen, Patrick A ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Barro Colorado Island; High resolution aerial digital photography; Remote sensing; Spatial patterns; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; AUTOCORRELATION; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; DIGITAL IMAGE; FOREST CANOPY; REMOTE SENSING; TROPICAL FOREST; VEGETATION MAPPING;

BARRO COLORADO ISLAND; PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; PANAMA [PANAMA (NTN)];

EID: 84877107564     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/btp.12009     Document Type: Article

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