Data assimilation in stand-level forest inventories

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 1104-1113

  Ehlers, Sarah ^a   Grafström, Anton ^a   Nyström, Kenneth ^a   Olsson, Håkan ^a   Ståhl, Göran ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION STRATEGIES; BAYESIAN METHODS; DATA ASSIMILATION; FOREST INVENTORY; LARGE-SCALE APPLICATIONS; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; METHODOLOGICAL COMPARISON; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION;

FORESTRY;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA ASSIMILATION; FOREST INVENTORY; GROWTH MODELING; KALMAN FILTER; PRECISION; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH WORK; STAND DYNAMICS;

DATA PROCESSING; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY;

EID: 84889036413     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2013-0250     Document Type: Article

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