Small-area estimation of county-level forest attributes using ground data and remote sensed auxiliary information

Forest Science

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 536-548

  Goerndt, Michael E ^a   Monleon, Vicente J ^b   Temesgen, Hailemariam ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite estimation; Forest inventory analysis; Landsat; Nearest neighbor imputation; Pacific northwest

Indexed keywords

AUXILIARY INFORMATION; FOREST INVENTORY ANALYSIS; LAND COVER CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; NEAREST NEIGHBOR IMPUTATION; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; QUADRATIC MEAN DIAMETER;

ESTIMATION; LINEAR REGRESSION;

FORESTRY;

ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; INVENTORY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84886656652     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5849/forsci.12-073     Document Type: Article

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