Proceedings of the seventh 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 USDA Forest Service.

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

• Forest inventory: role in accountability for sustainable forest management
• A history of U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service forest survey, 1830-2004
• Separating the cows from the trees: toward development of national definitions of forest and rangeland
• Society of American Foresters - an advocacy for forest inventory
• Tree communities of lowland warm-temperate old-growth and neighboring shelterbelt forests in the Shikoku region of southwestern Japan
• Development of a national forest inventory for carbon accounting purposes in New Zealand's planted Kyoto forests
• Current and emerging operational uses of remote sensing in Swedish forestry
• Austrian National Forest Inventory: caught in the past and heading toward the future
• Italian National Forest Inventory: methods, state of the project, and future developments
• Deriving simple and adjusted financial rates of return on Mississippi timber lands by combining forest inventory and analysis and Timber Mart-South data
• The virtual analyst program: automated data mining, error analysis, and reporting
• A comparison of tree crown condition in areas with and without gypsy moth activity
• Searching for American chestnut: the estimation of rare species attributes in a national forest inventory
• Rapid forest change in the interior west presents analysis opportunities and challenges
• Forests on the edge: evaluating contributions of and threats to America's private forest lands
• Relationships between the attributes of standing live and dead down trees in forests of the Lake States
• Thematic and positional accuracy assessment of digital remotely sensed data
• The spatial distribution of riparian ash: implications for the dispersal of the emerald ash borer
• The investigation of classification methods of high-resolution imagery
• Measurement of forest disturbance and regrowth with Landsat and forest inventory and analysis data: anticipated benefits from forest and inventory analysis' collaboration with the national aeronautics and space administration and university partners
• The status of accurately locating forest inventory and analysis plots using the Global Positioning System
• Mapping Forest Inventory and Analysis forest land use: timberland, reserved forest land, and other forest land
• Use of LIDAR for forest inventory and forest management application
• On estimation in k-tree sampling
• Grid-based sampling designs and area estimation
• New methods for sampling sparse populations
• Location uncertainty and the tri-areal design
• The poor man's Geographic Information System: plot expansion factors
• Improving coarse woody debris measurements: a taper-based technique
• Evaluating ecoregion-based height-diameter relationships of five economically important Appalachian hardwood species in West Virginia
• Using Forest Inventory and Analysis data to model plant-climate relationships
• A k-nearest neighbor approach for estimation of single-tree biomass
• A Bayesian approach to multisource forest area estimation
• Compatible taper algorithms for California hardwoods
• Sample-based estimation of tree species richness in a wet tropical forest compartment
• Estimating tree species richness from forest inventory plot data
• Defining stem profile model for wood valuation of red pine in Ontario and Michigan with consideration of stand density influence on tree taper
• Modeling forest bird species' likelihood of occurrence in Utah with Forest Inventory and Analysis and Landfire map products and ecologically based pseudo-absence points
• Challenges of working with FIADB17 data: the SOLE experience
• Use of FIA plot data in the LANDFIRE project

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. 2007. Proceedings of the seventh annual forest inventory and analysis symposium. Gen. Tech. Report WO-77. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. 319 p.