Multi-Source National Forest Inventory Methods and Applications
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...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2008, 2008
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2008 |
Series: | Managing Forest Ecosystems
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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