Sampling strategies for estimating forest cover from remote sensing-based two-stage inventories

Forest Ecosystems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Corona, Piermaria ^a   Fattorini, Lorenzo ^b   Pagliarella, Maria Chiara ^c  

^a Forestry Research Centre   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Auxiliary information; Difference estimator; Forest monitoring; Horvitz Thompson estimator; Spatially balanced sampling; Variance estimator

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050405578     PISSN: 20956355     EISSN: 21975620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40663-015-0042-7     Document Type: Article

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