USING DIGITAL IMAGE PROJECTIONS TO VISUALIZE FOREST LANDSCAPE CHANGESDUE TO MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES AND FOREST GROWTH

A pedagogic problem in forestry and landscape management is to visuali ze future landscape effects of forest growth and current management ac tivities in the forest. This paper presents a method for forecasting d igital image projections of forest landscape dynamics. Static nonlinea r regression functions estimate the digital numbers in a Landsat Thema tic Mapper image. Regressors used are forest stand variables. By estim ating the future forest stand data, based on intermediate treatment an d growth future satellite digital images are created. In a case study example, the future landscape of a forest block in the province of Vas ternorrland, Sweden, is projected to demonstrate the application of th is visualization technique.