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Estimation of Agriculture-Forestry Transition Matrices from Aerial Photographs*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 April 2015

Harry J. Van Loock ,
William L. Hafley  and
Richard A. King
Harry J. Van Loock
Affiliation:
School of Forest Resources
William L. Hafley
Affiliation:
North Carolina State University
Richard A. King
Affiliation:
North Carolina State University
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The difficulties associated with improving forest management practices on land held by farmers and other small landowners have been well documented. In North Carolina roughly four-fifths of all forest area is to be found in such holdings. To evaluate alternative strategies for improving land management, it is important to have information concerning the rates of change in land use on existing units. Aerial photographs provide a valuable source of this information, especially when flights have been made over an area at regular intervals extending back over several decades. In general, such regularity of aerial photo flights does exist for the continental United States. This article describes the use of such photographic data to construct land-use transition matrices.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , December 1973 , pp. 147 - 153
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1973

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North Carolina State University Agricultural Experiment Station Paper No. 4160

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