Design-based methodological advances to support national forest inventories: A review of recent proposals

IForest

Volumn 8, Issue , 2014, Pages 6-11

  Fattorini, Lorenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aerial information; Calibration weighting; LiDAR; Missing data; Non forest resources; Two phase strategies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921269711     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19717458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3832/ifor1239-007     Document Type: Article

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