Publicaciones

Almonacid, N., Niklitschek, M., Contreras, M. , Labbé, R., Trincado, G., Valenzuela, C., Gajardo, J., Padilla, R., Droppelmann, F., Fernández, C., Iroumé, A., Barrientos, G. 2023. Impacto del cambio climático en plantaciones de Pinus radiata (D. Don). Cartografía e indicadores regionales. s. Universidad Austral de Chile. Valdivia, Chile. 276 p. ISBN 978-956-414-688-1.

Contreras, M., Hamraz, H., Zhang, J. 2018. Uso de tecnología de datos LiDAR en inventarios forestales remotos (Use of LiDAR technology in remote forest inventories). In Geomática Aplicada, Mena, C., Ormazábal, Y., Barrientos, V. (Eds). Aerophotogrammetry Service – Chilean Air Force & University of Talca – Chile. pp 139-148.

Hamraz, H., Contreras, M.A. 2018. Remote sensing of forests using discrete return airborne LiDAR. Recent Advances and Applications in Remote Sensing. Ming Hung (Ed), IntechOpen, DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.71777.

Contreras, M. 2015. Proceedings of the 38th annual meeting of the Council on Forest Engineering – Engineering Solution for Non-Industrial Private Forest Operations. July 19-22. Lexington, KY. 377 pp.

Contreras, M., Chung, W. 2014. Optimizing the selection of individual trees in thinning treatments to reduce crown fire potential. The International Forestry Review 16(5):296.

Staats, W., Contreras, M. 2014. LiDAR-derived forest canopy metrics and their influence on spatial distribution of plethondotid salamander populations. The International Forestry Review 16(5):159.

Contreras, M., Parrott, D., Stringer, J.W. 2014. Quantifying potential benefits of implementing computer generated skid trail networks. The International Forestry Review 16(5):299.

In Proceedings: The 15th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration (IRI). Sand Francisco, CA, USA.

A modeling approach to estimating skidding costs for individual trees for thinning operations. Western Journal of Applied Forestry 26(3):133-146

Contreras, M., Chung, W. 2010. Optimizing tree-level removal to efficiently minimize crown fire hazard. The International Forestry Review 12(5):312.

Aracena, P., Contreras, M., Chung, W. 2010. Optimizing multiple log landing locations for ground-based timber harvesting. The International Forestry Review 12(5):312.

Contreras M., W. Chung, G. Jones. 2008. Applying ant colony optimization meta-heuristic to solve forest transportation planning problems with side constraints. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38(11):2896-2910

Contreras M., W. Chung. 2007. A computer approach to finding an optimal log landing location and analyzing influencing factors for ground-based timber harvesting. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37(2):276-292