Abstract
In last decades, numerous efforts have been carried out by the scientific community to assess the multifunctional role of forests in supporting the forest decision-making processes. Recently developed in Italy, the Forest Landscape Management Planning seems to be the most suitable tool to maintain the sustainability balance between forests and local populations. This research identifies and maps different forest ecosystem functions in a mountain Natura2000 Network site by performing a spatial estimation of forest inventory parameters, and implementing a multi-criteria and multi-level approach. Final results on mapping of forest functions show acceptable values of classification accuracy.
Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank the anonymous referees for their helpful comments that contributed to meaningfully improve the quality of the paper.
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1 This research was completely conducted by the authors at the Dipartimento di Bioscienze e Territorio, Università degli Studi del Molise, Contrada Fonte Lappone, 86090, Pesche, Isernia, Italy.
1. IRS-P6, also known as ResourceSat-1, is an Earth observation mission within the IRS (Indian Remote-Sensing Satellite) series of ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization). IRS-P6 is the continuation of the IRS-1C/1D missions with considerably enhanced capabilities. The overall objectives of the mission are to provide continued remote sensing data services on an operational basis for integrated land and water resources management. For further information, see http://www.isro.org/satellites/irs-p6resourcesat-1.aspx