Remote Sensing Vocabulary Chapter 11
branching characteristics, canopy closure, crown shapes, crown diameter, crown area, crown
cover, dispersed activities, elimination key, intensive activities, perfect market conditions, photo
interpretation keys, photo-controlled ground cruise, quantity of use, recreational survey, spatial
distribution patterns, stand variables, stand volume tables, tarif, tree volume tables, tree volumes,
visitor day
- Step-by-step guides for classification and identification
- Guide which classifies by removal from consideration
- Description of the shapes formed by tree limbs
- Description of the foliage pattern of the tree tops
- Arrangement among trees
- Calculation of trees per area
- Measurement of width of tree foliage
- Measurement of the area covered by tree foliage
- Derived from volume prediction equations based on crown and height measurements
- Tabulated information
- Characteristics of an area of trees
- Multiple entry tables based on assessments of two or three photographic coverages of he
dominant co-dominant crown canopy
- Canopy closure, density, percentage of a forest area occupied by the vertical projections
of tree crowns
- Combines the features of aerial and ground estimating to obtain timber volumes with
maximum efficiency
- Quantification of the amount of interaction between humans and the managed
environment, often measured in visitor days
- Any reasonable portion of a twenty-four hour period during which an individual person
uses a unit of land for recreation
- Uniform demand and accessibility for all areas thus removing location of population
centers and present access
- Activities accommodating large numbers of people per unit area
- Activities which normally require a relatively larger area per person
- Designed to locate potential sites and transfer these areas to a base map of suitable scale