LANDFIRE is a large interagency project that supports national fire management and fuels treatment activities. A primary data product of LANDFIRE is a detailed vegetation type classification. This study describes how independent data from Landsat imagery, topographic data, biophysical data layers, and dependent field-collected data can be used in a hierarchical mapping approach to improve veget...

The detection of forest types and structure parameters is of major importance for the design of forest inventories, for the application of forest management practices as well as for the monitoring of biodiversity in the context of the NATURA 2000 network. For these purposes the use of additional information about the natural behaviour of forest structure within classification processes of satel...

Forest types mapping is one of the most necessary elements in forest management and Silviculture treatments. Traditional methods such as field surveys are time-consuming and cost-intensive. Improving satellite data sources and classification methods offer new opportunities for obtaining more accurate forest biophysical maps. This research compares performance of three non-parametric and tree-ba...

recognition equal units and segregation them and upshot planning per units most basic method for management forest units. aim this study presentation and comparison classification and regression tree (cart) and random forest (rf) algorithm for forest type mapping using aster satellite data in district one didactic and research forest's darabkola. in start using inventory network 500* 350 m...

In general, considerable human and material resources are required for performing a forest inventory survey. Using remote sensing technologies to save forest inventory costs has thus become an important topic in forest inventory-related studies. Leica ADS-40 digital aerial photographs feature advantages such as high spatial resolution, high radiometric resolution, and a wealth of spectral infor...

the objective of this research was to identify and describe the different ecological species groups (vegetation types) present in the rural heritage museum of guilan. the study area was approximately 260 ha, which is located in the saravan forest park in guilan province, north of iran. sampling procedure was performed with a systematic random technique. a total of 89 plots were sampled. classif...

Two landuse grids were available for these catchments; one in 1995 was derived from satellite imagery and contained a relatively undifferentiated landuse classification (lumping all forest types into one category); the other in 2003 was derived from a mix of satellite imagery, ground truthing, and mapping, and better differentiated between landuse types (dividing forest types into evergreen, de...