Multi-Source National Forest Inventory Methods and Applications /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Tomppo, Erkki (Συγγραφέας), Haakana, Markus (Συγγραφέας), Katila, Matti (Συγγραφέας), Peräsaari, Jouni (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Σειρά: Managing Forest Ecosystems, 18
• Θέματα: Environment.; Geographical information systems.; Forestry.; Forestry management.; Environmental management.; Environmental sciences.; Environmental Management.; Forestry Management.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science.

Building on more than a decade of innovative research into multi-source forest inventory (MS-NFI) this book presents full details of the development, outputs and applications of the improved k-NN method. The method, which was pioneered in Finland in 1990, is rapidly becoming a world standard in fore...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• List of abbreviations
• Preface
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Materials. 2.1 Field data. 2.2 Satellite images. 2.3 Digital map data. 2.4 Digital elevation model. 2.5 Large area forest resource data
• 3. Methods. 3.1 Image rectification and pre-processing of data. 3.2 Estimation
• 4. Results. 4.1 Forest resources by municipalities. 4.2 Comparison of the results by regions and to MS-NFI8 results. 4.3 Accuracy of small-area estimates from MS-NFI8 and MS-NFI9. 4.4 Digital thematic output maps
• 5. Discussion
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Appendix 1. Forest resource tables 1–8
• Appendix 2. Examples of forest resource maps
• Index.