On the possibility to monitor and assess forest damage within large scale monitoring programmes - a simulation study

Silva Fennica

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Wulff, Sören ^a   Roberge, Cornelia ^a   Ringvall, Anna Hedström ^a   Holm, Sören ^a   Ståhl, Göran ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Environmental monitoring and assessment; Forest condition; Forest health; Forest inventory

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT DAMAGES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST CONDITIONS; FOREST HEALTH; FOREST INVENTORY; LARGE-SCALE MONITORING; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; SIMULATION STUDIES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; LOSSES;

FORESTRY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOREST INVENTORY; NUMERICAL MODEL;

CLIMATES; FORESTRY; INVENTORY CONTROL;

SWEDEN;

EID: 84888052023     PISSN: 00375330     EISSN: 22424075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14214/sf.1000     Document Type: Article

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