Spatial Modeling in Forest Resources Management: Rural Livelihood and Sustainable Development

This book demonstrates the measurement, monitoring, mapping, and modeling of forest resources. It explores state-of-the-art techniques based on open-source software&R statistical programming and modeling specifically, with a focus on the recent trends in data mining/machine learning techniques and robust modeling in forest resources.

Discusses major topics such as forest health assessment, estimating forest biomass&carbon stock, land use forest cover (LUFC), dynamic vegetation modeling (DVM)...