Tree mortality based fire severity classification for forest inventories: A Pacific Northwest national forests example

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 359, Issue , 2016, Pages 199-209

  Whittier, Thomas R ^a   Gray, Andrew N ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Fire effects; Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA); Forest monitoring; Probabilistic sampling; Tree remeasurement; Wildfire

Indexed keywords

BOND (MASONRY); CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DEFORESTATION; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; FIRE HAZARDS; FIRES; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

FIRE EFFECT; FOREST INVENTORY AND ANALYSIS; FOREST MONITORING; PROBABILISTIC SAMPLING; TREE REMEASUREMENT; WILDFIRE;

FORESTRY;

BIOMONITORING; FOREST FIRE; FOREST INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MORTALITY RISK; PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UNDERSTORY; WILDFIRE;

OREGON; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84945205640     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2015.10.015     Document Type: Article

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