Using a remote sensing-based, percent tree cover map to enhance forest inventory estimation

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 331, Issue , 2014, Pages 12-18

  McRoberts, Ronald E ^a   Liknes, Greg C ^a   Domke, Grant M ^a  

^a USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auxiliary information; Forest inventory; Model assisted regression estimator; Precision; Stratified estimator

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING;

AUXILIARY INFORMATION; FOREST INVENTORY; PRECISION; REGRESSION ESTIMATORS; STRATIFIED ESTIMATOR;

FORESTRY;

ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST COVER; FOREST INVENTORY; POPULATION MODELING; REMOTE SENSING; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TREE; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MAPPING METHOD; SATELLITE DATA; VEGETATION COVER;

FORESTRY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INVENTORY CONTROL; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84906213632     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2014.07.025     Document Type: Article

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