Proceedings of the eighth annual forest inventory and analysis symposium

Abstract

Documents contributions to forest inventory in the areas of sampling, remote sensing, modeling, information management and analysis for the Forest Inventory and Analysis program of the Forest Service.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the eighth annual forest inventory and analysis symposium

• The Italian National Forest Inventory: geographical and positioning aspects in relation to the different phases of the project
• The new Brazilian national forest inventory
• Japanese national forest inventory and its spatial extension by remote sensing
• The design of the second German national forest inventory
• The Brazilian national system of forest permanent plots
• Mapping Martinique's forests and other natural lands for land planning and development
• The Finnish national forest inventory
• Forest inventories generate scientifically sound information on the forest resource, but do our data and information really matter?
• Research applications of ecosystem patterns
• Developing survey grids to substantiate freedom from exotic pests
• Predicting the ability to produce emerald ash borer: a comparison of riparian and upland ash forests in southern lower Michigan
• The distribution of mercury in a forest floor transect across the central United States
• Dimensionality and the sample unit
• Assessment of black ash (Fraxinus nigra) decline in Minnesota
• Use of forest inventory and analysis grid-based animal population data to develop an index of ecological diversity
• Wildlife monitoring across multiple spatial scales using grid-based sampling
• Quantifying forest fragmentation using Geographic Information Systems and Forest Inventory and Analysis plot data
• The relationship between diversity and productivity in selected forests of the Lake States Region (USA): relative impact of species versus structural diversity
• Estimating number and size of forest patches from FIA plot data
• Using Forest Service multiple species inventory and monitoring protocols to count birds at forest inventory and analysis plots on the Caribbean landscape: results, observations, and challenges from year 1 of a 2-year study
• Predicting bird habitat quality from a geospatial analysis of FIA data
• Estimating dead wood during national forest inventories: a review of inventory methodologies and suggestions for harmonization
• Estimating the quadratic mean diameter of fine woody debris for forest type groups of the United States
• Attributes of standing dead trees in forests of the United States
• Allometric equations for predicting Puerto Rican dry forest biomass and volume
• Forest inventory predictions from individual tree crowns: regression modeling within a sample framework
• External validation of a forest inventory and analysis volume equation and comparisons with estimates from multiple stem-profile models
• Preliminary results of spatial modeling of selected forest health variables in Georgia
• Implementing the measurement interval midpoint method for change estimation
• Mapping forest inventory and analysis data attributes within the framework of double sampling for stratification design
• Precise FIA plot registration using field and dense LIDAR data
• Exploring the association of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' satellite-detected change with the Forest Inventory and Analysis system of observed removals and mortality
• The utility of the cropland data layer for Forest Inventory and Analysis
• Landscape scale mapping of forest inventory data by nearest neighbor classification
• Estimation of a cover-type change matrix from error-prone data
• Bridging the gap between strategic and management forest inventories
• Estimating uncertainty in map intersections
• Sampling and mapping forest volume and biomass using airborne LIDARs
• Forest-cover-type separation using RADARSAT-1 synthetic aperture radar imagery
• Rapid mapping of hurricane damage to forests
• LIDAR forest inventory with single-tree, double- and single-phase procedures
• Cartographic standards to improve maps produced by the Forest Inventory and Analysis program
• Automatic crown cover mapping to improve forest inventory
• The Finnish multisource national forest inventory: small-area estimation and map production
• Prefield methods: streamlining forest or nonforest determinations to increase inventory efficiency
• Is there a better metric than site index to indicate the productivity of forested lands?
• Improving Forest Inventory and Analysis efficiency with common land unit information
• Phase 2 and phase 3 presentation grids
• New functions and programs in Hypermap software development for internet-based displaying of FIA data
• Next-generation simulation and optimization platform for forest management and analysis
• SOLE: enhanced FIA data analysis capabilities

Keywords

sampling, estimation, remote sensing, modeling, information science, policy, analysis

Citation

McRoberts, Ronald E.; Reams, Gregory A.; Van Deusen, Paul C.; McWilliams, William H., eds. 2009. Proceedings of the eighth annual forest inventory and analysis symposium. Proceedings of the eighth annual forest inventory and analysis symposium; 2006 October 16-19; Monterey, CA. Gen. Tech. Report WO-79. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 408 p.