Using Forest Inventory and Analysis Plots to Estimate Sample Sizes for Alternative Inventory Methods

Methods to estimate aboveground wood productivity from long-term forest inventory plots

Forest inventory plots are widely used to estimate biomass carbon storage and its change over time. While there has been much debate and exploration of the analytical methods for calculating biomass, the methods used to determine rates of wood production have not been evaluated to the same degree. This affects assessment of ecosystem fluxes and may have wider implications if inventory data are ...

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...

Regression Analysis for Forest Inventory Data

In this paper the data of a forest health inventory are analysed. Since 1983 the degree of defoliation (damage), together with various explanatory variables (covariates) concerning stand, site, soil and weather, are recorded by the second of the two authors, in the forest district Rothenbuch (Spessart, Bavaria). The focus is on the space and time dependencies of the data. The mutual relationshi...

Forest inventory

A Multivariate Approach to Mapping Forest Vegetation and Fuels Using Gis Databases, Satellite Imagery, and Forest Inventory Plots

Knowing the types and amounts of fuels at a site is an important prerequisite to evaluating fire risk, predicting fire behavior, and assessing potential fire effects. When these assessments are expanded to larger extents, the spatial configuration of the landscape fuel mosaic must also be considered (Keane et al. 2000: Keane et al. 1998). Spatial patterns of fuels, topography, and wind all inte...