Monitoring Across Borders: 2010 Joint Meeting of the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium and the Southern Mensurationists

Abstract

These proceedings represent the range of topics covered during the 2010 Joint Meeting of the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium and the Southern Mensurationists, October 5-7, 2010 in Knoxville, TN. The meeting was a gathering of forest scientists with a quantitative leaning and, as such, the papers discuss the aspects of the observation, estimation, modeling and monitoring of forest resources that are of contemporary interest. Papers included in this publication have been sorted into a number of general topic areas. Those areas include International Forest Monitoring, Biometrics, Forest Ecosystems, Forest Heath, Data Integrity, Cover Estimation, and Carbon and Biomass.

Titles contained within Monitoring Across Borders: 2010 Joint Meeting of the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium and the Southern Mensurationists

• How is FIA helping other countries monitor their forests?
• Current forest and woodland carbon storage and flux in California: An estimate for the 2010 statewide assessment
• Evaluating the compatibility of American and Mexican national forest inventory data
• Modeling Alaska boreal forests with a controlled trend surface approach
• Curious or spurious correlations within a national-scale forest inventory?
• Estimating tree crown widths for the primary Acadian species in Maine
• An evaluation of the properties of the variance estimator used by FIA
• A multivariate mixed model system for wood specific gravity and moisture content of planted loblolly pine stands in the southern United States
• Modeling forest ecosystem changes resulting from surface coal mining in West Virginia
• A preliminary test of an ecological classification system for the Oconee National Forest using forest inventory and analysis data
• Changes in early-successional hardwood forest area in four bird conservation regions across four decades
• Relationships between harvest of American ginseng and hardwood timber production
• Quantifying change in riparian ash forests following the introduction of EAB in Michigan and Indiana
• Using inventory data to determine the impact of drought on tree mortality
• Potential impacts of year-round sampling on monitoring presence- absence of invasive flora in the southern United States
• White ash (Fraxinus americana) health in the Allegheny plateau region, Pennsylvania: Evaluating the relationship between FIA phase 3 crown variables and a categorical rating system
• Estimation of invasive probability of multiflora rose in the upper Midwest
• A national analytical quality assurance program: Developing guidelines and analytical tools for the forest inventory and analysis program
• Resolving the pulpwood canvass with inventory harvest information
• Algorithmic decision rules for estimating growth, removals, and mortality within a national-scale forest inventory (USA)
• Application of an assessment protocol to extensive species and total basal area per acre datasets for the eastern coterminous United States
• A database strategy for new variables
• Potential applications of prefield land use and canopy cover data: Examples from nonforest and nonsampled forest inventory plots
• Repeatability in photo-interpretation of tree canopy cover and its effect on predictive mapping
• A framework for reporting tree cover attributes in agricultural landscapes
• Choosing appropriate subpopulations for modeling tree canopy cover nationwide
• Sampling intensity and normalizations: Exploring cost-driving factors in nationwide mapping of tree canopy cover
• Assessing alternative measures of tree canopy cover: Photo-interpreted NAIP and ground-based estimates
• A tool to determine crown and plot canopy transparency for forest inventory and analysis phase 3 plots using digital photographs
• An alternative method for estimating crown characteristics of urban trees using digital photographs
• Comparison of LiDAR- and photointerpretation-based estimates of canopy cover
• Comparing alternative tree canopy cover estimates derived from digital aerial photography and field-based assessments
• Assessing the accuracy of crown biomass equations for the major commercial species of the interior northwest: study plan and preliminary results
• Forest biomass supply for bioenergy in the southeast: Evaluating assessment scale
• Long-term simulations of forest management impacts on carbon storage from loblolly pine plantations in the Southern U.S.
• Stand density index as a tool to assess the maximization of forest carbon and biomass
• The zero inflation of standing dead tree carbon stocks

Keywords

Statistics, estimation, sampling, modeling, remote sensing, forest health, data integrity, environmental monitoring, cover estimation, international forest monitoring

Citation

McWilliams, Will; Roesch, Francis A., eds. 2012. Monitoring Across Borders: 2010 Joint Meeting of the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium and the Southern Mensurationists. e-Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-157. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 299 p.