For maintaining of Zagros forests role in wild life, water and soil conservation, the suitable solutions and methods for assessing the existing conditions and planning for management of this forests should be given. To detection of suitable sampling method to study tree Diameter at Breath Height in the northern Zagros forest, Blake forest, in Baneeh region, Kurdistan province, and west of Iran ...

In forest area, there are few landmarks to be ground control points (GCPs) used for registration of satellite images or maps. Additionally, geographic information from the Global Positioning System (GPS) in field measurement survey is insufficient accuracy to identify individual tree crowns from satellite image. In this study, we propose the method of identifying individual tree crowns from sat...

The max tree-height of an undirected graph is the longest possible length of a path among all spanning trees of the graph. A maximum height spanning tree of an undirected graph is a spanning tree that has a path of length equal to the max tree-height of the graph. Finding the max tree-height of a graph, or similarly some spanning tree of maximum height, is an NP-hard optimization problem for wh...

Tree mortality in tropical forests is a complex ecological process for which modelling approaches need to be improved to better understand, and then predict, the evolution of tree mortality in response to global change. The mortality model introduced here computes an individual probability of dying for each tree in a community. The mortality model uses the ontogenetic stage of the tree because ...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Jaan Praks Name of the doctoral dissertation Radar polarimetry and interferometry for remote sensing of boreal forest Publisher School of Electrical Engineering Unit Department of Radio Science and Engineering Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 153/2012 Field of research Space technology and remo...