The forest inventory project at the Tapajós National Forest. Final report
A multistage sampling design for inventory was tested at the Tapajós Forest, located close to the city of Santarém, Pará State, Brazil. This area has about 550,000 ha, covered by a dense tropical rainfores. Using the procedure of visual analysis of TM-Landsat images, five classes of forest were identified. The average and total volumes of timber for three forest classes were estimated. Furthermore, a databank containing georeferenced data was set up, including thematic information such as vegetation, soils, geomorphology, drainage and topography, available to professionals of most different areas of human knowledge.
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San José dos Campos, SP (Brasil) INPE
1993
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| Subjects: | CARACTERISTICAS DEL SITIO, INVENTARIOS FORESTALES, METODOS, DISEÑO, MODELOS MATEMATICOS, TELEDETECCION, VOLUMEN, PROGRAMAS DE COMPUTADORA, PROCESAMIENTO DE LA INFORMACION, BRASIL, |
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