Computer Applications in Sustainable Forest Management Including Perspectives on Collaboration and Integration /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shao, Guofan (Editor), Reynolds, Keith M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Application software.; Bioinformatics.; Computational biology.; Forestry.; Forestry management.; Environmental management.; Nature conservation.; Life Sciences.; Computer Appl. in Life Sciences.; Forestry Management.; Environmental Management.; Nature Conservation.; Computer Applications.

Computer Applications in Sustainable Forest Management presents state-of-the-art computer applications in a variety of specialty areas of forestry, including inventory, remote sensing, information management, modelling and visualization, biometrics, forest and harvest planning, bioeconomics and mark...

Table of Contents:

• Core technologies
• High-spatial-resolution remote sensing
• Active remote sensing
• Forest information systems
• Road and harvesting planning and operations
• Forest simulation models
• Visualization with spatial data
• Computer-aided decision making
• Bioeconomic and market models
• Synthetic applications
• Digital forestry in the wildland-urban interface
• Linking multiple tools: an american case
• Linking multiple tools: a chinese case
• Conclusions
• From data to sustainable forests.