Hazard rating of coastal pine forests for a black pine bast scale using self-organizing map (SOM) and random forest approaches

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 29, Issue P2, 2015, Pages 206-213

  Nam, Youngwoo ^a   Koh, Sang Hyun ^a   Jeon, Sung Jae ^a   Youn, Ho Joong ^a   Park, Young Seuk ^b   Choi, Won Il ^a  

^a Korea Forest Research Institute   (South Korea)

^b Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Black pine bast scale; Coastal disaster prevention forest; Forest management; Hazard rating; Random forest; Self organizing map

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CONIFEROUS FOREST; DISASTER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INSECT; PROBABILITY; RANDOM WALK METHOD; STAND DYNAMICS;

MATSUCOCCUS THUNBERGIANAE; PINUS NIGRA;

EID: 84940795988     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.11.001     Document Type: Article

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