... roughly, forest covertypes, forest ecosystems, and forest stands — that can be managed uniformly (Bailey etal., 1978). The expectation in forestry is that the smallest landscape units, forestsstands, ... toaccomplish the goals of forest management. It seems unlikely that there will be aone-to-one correspondence between spectral response patterns, forest covertypes, forest ecosystems and forest stands; ... (nonflooded alluvial plains forest, lowland season-allyflooded forest, palm forest, and swamp forest) were mapped accurately usingLandsat TM imagery of the Chimanes Forest. When the categories...