Creating Landscape-Scale Site Index Maps for the Southeastern US Is Possible with Airborne LiDAR and Landsat Imagery

Creating Landscape-Scale Site Index Maps for the Southeastern US Is Possible with Airborne LiDAR and Landsat Imagery

Sustainable forest management is hugely dependent on high-quality estimates of forest site productivity, but it is challenging to generate productivity maps over large areas. We present a method for generating site index (a measure of such forest productivity) maps for plantation loblolly pine (Pinu...

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Main Authors: Ranjith Gopalakrishnan, Jobriath S. Kauffman, Matthew E. Fagan, John W. Coulston, Valerie A. Thomas, Randolph H. Wynne, Thomas R. Fox, Valquiria F. Quirino
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-03-01
Series:Forests
Subjects:
forestry
forest site productivity
site index
Landsat
airborne laser scanning
forest productivity mapping
FIA
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/10/3/234

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