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Simo Poso (email), Tuomas Häme, Raito Paananen

A method for estimating the stand characteristics of a forest compartment using satellite imagery.

Poso S., Häme T., Paananen R. (1984). A method for estimating the stand characteristics of a forest compartment using satellite imagery. Silva Fennica vol. 18 no. 3 article id 5219. https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.a15398

Abstract

The paper presents a method based on two phase sampling and applicable to forest inventories. The first phase estimates are obtained from satellite imagery and, if required, from extra material such as maps. Second phase estimates are measured in the field. The method is flexible and also applicable to compartmentwise forest inventories. The experiments were based on six study areas with 439 relascope plots. The correlation coefficients between first and second stage estimates varied largely according to the study area.

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Keywords
forest inventories; remote sensing; satellite imagery; survey by stands; compartmentwise forest inventories; relascope plots

Published in 1984

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