Southern
Research Station

Education

Ph.D. in Forest Biometrics/Ecology Program, 1988

Rutgers University

M.S. in Statistics, 1988

Rutgers University

B.S. in Natural Resource Mgt, Forestry, 1984

Cook College of Rutgers University

Featured Publications and Products

• Roesch, Francis; Van Deusen, Paul. 2013. Time as a dimension of the sample design in national-scale forest inventories.
• Roesch, Francis A. 2014. Toward robust estimation of the components of forest population change: simulation results.
• Roesch, Francis A.; Van Deusen, Paul C. 2010. Anomaly detection for analysis of annual inventory data: a quality control approach.
• Roesch, Francis. 2009. Spatial-temporal models for improved county-level annual estimates.
• Roesch, Francis A.; Van Deusen, Paul C. 2012. Monitoring forest/non-forest land use conversion rates with annual inventory data.
• Van Deusen, Paul C.; Roesch, Francis A. 2009. Estimating forest conversion rates with annual forest inventory data.
• Van Deusen, Paul C.; Roesch, Francis. 2009. Application of mapped plots for single-owner forest surveys.
• Van Deusen, Paul; Roesch, Francis; Wigley, Thomas. 2013. Estimating forestland area change from inventory data.

Publications

• Roesch, Francis ; Schroeder, Todd A. 2021. The wrapper model for multiobjective forest monitoring systems.
• Roesch, Francis A.; Schroeder, Todd. 2020. Auxiliary network sampling for multi-objective national forest inventories: a practical examination of search distances.
• Vogt, James T.; Coyle, David R.; Jenkins, David ; Barnes, Chris ; Crowe, Christopher ; Horn, Scott ; Bates, Chip ; Roesch, Francis A. 2020. Efficacy of five herbicide treatments for control of Pyrus calleryana.
• Roesch, Francis A. 2019. Composite estimators for forest growth derived from symmetric, varying-length observation intervals.
• Roesch, Francis . 2018. Composite estimators for growth derived from repeated plot measurements of positively-asymmetric interval lengths.
• Roesch, Francis. 2017. Dual-filter estimation for rotating-panel sample designs.
• Roesch, Francis A.; Schroeder, Todd A.; Vogt, James T. 2017. Effects of cycle length and plot density on estimators for a national-scale forest monitoring sample design.
• Roesch, Francis. 2016. A simulation of image-assisted forest monitoring for national inventories.
• Vogt, James T.; Roesch, Francis A.; Brown, Mark J. 2016. Hemlock Woolly Adelgid ( Adelges tsugae ) and hemlock ( Tsuga spp.) in Western North Carolina: What do the Forest Inventory and Analysis data tell us?.
• Roesch, Francis; Coulston, John; Van Deusen, Paul; Podlaski, Rafal. 2015. Evaluation of image-assisted forest monitoring: A simulation.
• Van Deusen, Paul C.; Roesch, Francis A. 2015. Plot intensity and cycle-length effects on growth and removals estimates from forest inventories.
• Lynch, Thomas B.; Roesch, Francis A.; McTague, John Paul; Gove, Jeffrey H.; Reams, Gregory A.; Weiskittel, Aaron R. 2015. The research contributions of Dr. Paul Van Deusen.
• Podlaski, Rafal; Roesch, Francis A. 2014. Approximation of the breast height diameter distribution of two-cohort stands by mixture models III Kernel density estimators vs mixture models.
• Podlaski, Rafal; Roesch, Francis. 2014. Modelling diameter distributions of two-cohort forest stands with various proportions of dominant species: a two-component mixture model approach.
• Roesch, Francis A. 2014. Toward Robust Estimation of the Components of Forest Population Change.
• Podlaski, Rafal; Roesch, Francis A. 2013. Approximation of the breast height diameter distribution of two-cohort stands by mixture models I Parameter estimation.
• Podlaski, Rafal; Roesch, Francis .A. 2013. Approximation of the breast height diameter distribution of two-cohort stands by mixture models II Goodness-of-fit tests.
• Patterson, Paul L.; Coulston, John W.; Roesch, Francis A.; Westfall, James A.; Hill, Andrew D. 2012. A primer of nonresponse in the US Forest Inventory and Analysis program.
• McWilliams, Will; Roesch, Francis A. 2012. Monitoring Across Borders: 2010 Joint Meeting of the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium and the Southern Mensurationists.
• Roesch, Francis; Coulston, John; Hill, Andrew D. . 2012. Statistical properties of alternative national forest inventory area estimators.
• Roesch, Francis A. 2012. The fourth dimension in FIA.
• Roesch, Francis A.; Van Deusen, Paul C. 2010. Anomalous dismeter distribution shifts estimated from FIA inventories through time.
• Van Deusen, Paul ; Roesch, Francis. 2009. A volume change index for forest growth and sustainability.
• Van Deusen, Paul C.; Roesch, Francis A. 2008. Alternative definitions of growth and removals and implications for forest sustainability.
• Roesch, Francis A. 2008. An alternative view of continuous forest inventories.
• Roesch, Francis A. 2007. Compatible estimators of the components of change for a rotating panel forest inventory design.
• Van Deusen, Paul C.; Roesch, Francis A. 2007. Constrained map-based inventory estimation.
• Roesch, Francis A. 2007. The components of change for an annual forest inventory design.
• Roesch, Francis A. 2007. The components of change for an annual forest inventory design.
• Spinney, Michael P.; Van Deusen, Paul C.; Roesch, Francis A. 2006. On-Line Analysis of Southern FIA Data.
• Roesch, Francis A. 2006. The FIA Panel Design and Compatible Estimators for the Components of Change.
• Roesch, Francis A. 2005. Location uncertainty and the tri-areal design.
• Roesch, Francis A.; McWilliams, William H. 2005. Searching for American chestnut: the estimation of rare species attributes in a national forest inventory.
• Reams, Gregory A.; Smith, William D.; Hansen, Mark H.; Bechtold, William A.; Roesch, Francis A.; Moisen, Gretchen G. 2005. The forest inventory and analysis sampling frame.
• Roesch, Francis A. 2002. The sensitivity of derived estimates to the measurment quality objectives for independent variables.
• Roesch, Francis A., Jr. 2001. FIA Estimation in the New Millennium.
• Roesch, Francis A., Jr. 2000. Pseudo-CFI for industrial forest industries.
• Roesch, Francis A., Jr..; Reams, Gregory A. 1999. Analytical alternatives for an annual inventory system.
• Reams, Gregory A.; Roesch, Francis A.; Cost, Noel D. 1999. Annual forest inventory: cornerstone of sustainability in the South.
• Roesch, Francis A., Jr. 1999. Mixed Estimation for a Forest Survey Sample Design.
• Roesch, Francis A., Jr..; van Deusen, Paul C.; Zhu, Zhiliang. 1995. A Comparison of Various Estimators for Updating Forest Area Coverage Using AVHRR and Forest Inventory Data.
• Roesch, F. A. 1995. Design and analysis for detection monitoring of forest health.
• Roesch, Francis A., Jr. 1994. Incorporating Estimates of Rare Clustered Events into Forest Inventories.
• Roesch, Francis A., Jr. 1994. Spatial Analysis for Monitoring Forest Health.
• Roesch, Francis A., Jr..; Green, Edwin J.; Scott, Charles T. 1993. A test of alternative estimators for volume at time 1 from remeasured point samples.
• Roesch, Francis A., Jr. 1993. Adaptive Cluster Sampling for Forest Inventories.
• Roesch, Francis A., Jr..; Green, Edwin J.; Scott, Charles T. 1993. An Alternative View of Forest Sampling.
• Roesch, Francis A., Jr..; van Deusen, Paul C. 1993. Control Variate Estimators of Survivor Growth from Point Samples.
• Thomas, Charles E.; Roesch, Francis A., Jr. 1990. Basal Area Growth Estimators for Survivor Component: A Quality Control Application.
• Roesch, Francis A., Jr..; Green, Edwin J.; Scott, Charles T. 1989. Compatible Basal Area and Number of Trees Estimators from Remeasured Horizontal Point Samples.
• Roesch, Francis A., Jr..; Green, Edwin J.; Scott, Charles T. 1989. New Compatible Estimators for Survivor Growth and Ingrowth from Remeasured Horizontal Point Samples.

Research Highlights

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