Satellite-based derivation of high-resolution forest information layers for operational forest management

Forests

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1982-2013

  Stoffels, Johannes ^a   Hill, Joachim ^a   Sachtleber, Thomas ^a   Mader, Sebastian ^a   Buddenbaum, Henning ^a   Stern, Oksana ^a   Langshausen, Joachim ^b   Dietz, Jürgen ^b   Ontrup, Godehard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b State Forest Service Rhineland Palatinate Office for Forest Planning   (Germany)

^c Ministry for Environment   (Germany)

Author keywords

Central Europe; Forest information layers; Operational forest management; Remote sensing; Spatially adaptive classification; Tree species mapping

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; ZONING;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; INFORMATION LAYERS; OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL INFORMATIONS; SPATIALLY ADAPTIVE; TREE SPECIES;

FORESTRY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; PHENOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TREES;

GERMANY; RHINELAND-PALATINATE;

EID: 84933503004     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f6061982     Document Type: Article

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