Mapping Forest Landscape Patterns

Mapping Forest Landscape Patterns

This book explores the concepts, premises, advancements, and challenges in quantifying natural forest landscape patterns through mapping techniques. After several decades of development and use, these tools can now be examined for their foundations, intentions, scope, advancements, and limitations....

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Remmel, Tarmo K. (Editor), Perera, Ajith H. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
Subjects:
Life sciences.
Applied ecology.
Landscape ecology.
Forestry.
Environmental management.
Life Sciences.
Landscape Ecology.
Applied Ecology.
Environmental Management.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1: Mapping forest landscapes: overview and a primer
  • Chapter 2: Fuzzy classification of vegetation for ecosystem mapping
  • Chapter 3: Portraying wildfires in forest landscapes as discrete complex objects
  • Chapter 4: Airborne LiDAR applications in forest landscapes
  • Chapter 5: Regression Tree modeling of spatial pattern and process interactions
  • Chapter 6: Mapping the abstractions of forest landscape patterns
  • Chapter 7: Towards automated forest mapping
  • Epilogue: Toward more efficient and effective applications of forest landscape maps.

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