Yield Frontier Analysis of Forest Inventory
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Standing inventory analysis allows a forester to predict the yield (volume by logtype) of a section of forest before the trees have been felled. Current standing inventory tools such as MARVL and ATLAS Cruiser predict yield. They do this by simulating the bucking that will take place when the trees are harvested. These tools produce a point estimate of the yield for given input data. In practice, when the trees are bucked at harvest, the harvesting crew can make different decisions than those predicted by the analysis. This paper presents a method of standing inventory analysis that seeks to characterise all possible yields for a section of forest.
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