Efficient sampling strategies for forest inventories by spreading the sample in auxiliary space

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1156-1164

  Grafström, Anton ^a   Saarela, Svetlana ^b   Ene, Liviu Theodor ^c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

Author keywords

Copula; Distance function; Imputation; Local pivotal method; Spatial sampling

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING;

COPULA; DISTANCE FUNCTIONS; IMPUTATION; LOCAL PIVOTAL METHOD; SPATIAL SAMPLING;

FORESTRY;

FOREST INVENTORY; NEAREST NEIGHBOR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ETELA-POHJANMAA; FINLAND; KUORTANE;

EID: 84907518879     PISSN: 00455067     EISSN: 12086037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/cjfr-2014-0202     Document Type: Article

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