Forest Resources Assessments: Mensuration, Inventory and Planning

Airborne Laser Scanning – a New Challenge for Forest Inventory and Monitoring of Forest Resources

The use of the newest methods of airborne laser scanning integrated with hyper-spectral satellite systems, provides principally new opportunities for remote sensing of forest cover. High efficiency of laser scanning (up to 100 thousand measurements per second) in combination with sub-meter spatial resolution, high accuracy of a tree stands’ structural parameters detection as well as three-dimen...

Forest inventory

Integrating Landsat-Derived Disturbance Maps with FIA Inventory Data: Applications for State-Level Forest Resource Assessments

Landsat images have been widely used for assessing forest characteristics and dynamics. Recently, signifi cant progress has been made towards indepth exploration of the rich Landsat archive kept by the U.S. Geological Survey to improve our under standing of forest disturbance and recovery processes. In this study, we used Landsat images to map forest disturbances at biennial intervals from 1984...

Forest inventory and analysis: a national inventory and monitoring program.

Forests provide significant commodity and noncommodity values to the citizens of the United States. An important and substantial role in ensuring the continued health, productivity, and sustainability of these resources is a reliable and credible inventory and monitoring program. The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the US Forest Service has been monitoring and reporting on status...

Dynamic Inventory Planning with Unknown Costs and Stochastic Demand

Generally ordering policies are done by two methods, including fix order quantity (FOQ) and fix order period (FOP). These methods are static and either the quantity of ordering or the procedure of ordering is fixing in throughout time horizon. In real environments, demand is varying in any period and may be considered as uncertainty. When demand is variable in any period, the traditional and st...