Moving from status to trends: Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) symposium 2012

Abstract

These proceedings report invited presentations and contributions to the 2012 biennial Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium, which was hosted by the Research and Development branch of the U.S. Forest Service. As the only comprehensive and continuous census of the forests in the United States, FIA provides strategic information needed to evaluate sustainability of current forest management practices across all ownerships. Papers and abstracts included in the publication have been sorted into topic areas that match the sessions presented during the meeting. Symposium papers cover high priority and timely issue-based topics including climate change, wildlife, fire, bioenergy, geo-spatial extensions, monitoring over time, integrating remote sensing and GIS applications, statistical and related quantitative solutions to emerging needs, and many others.

Titles contained within Moving from status to trends: Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) symposium 2012

• Effects of the "great recession" on the forest products sector in the northern region of the United States
• Impact of the great recession on the forest products industry in the western United States
• Assessing forest ownership dynamics in the United States: Methods and challenges
• Using multiple research methods to understand family forest owners
• Forest values and the impact of the federal estate tax on family forests
• Comparison of forest area data in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
• Assessment of land use change in the coterminous United States and Alaska for global assessment of forest loss conducted by the food and agricultural organization of the United Nations
• Image-based change estimation for land cover and land use monitoring
• Forecasting sustainability: growth to removals ratio dynamics
• Attributing causal agents to nationwide maps of forest disturbance
• New features added to EVALIDator: ratio estimation and county choropleth maps
• Using FIESTA , an R-based tool for analysts, to look at temporal trends in forest estimates
• Area change reporting using the desktop FIADB
• New Approaches to FIA data for understanding distribution, abundance, and response to climate change
• Investigating Forest Inventory and Analysis-collected tree-ring data from Utah as a proxy for historical climate
• Unlocking the climate riddle in forested ecosystems
• Emerald ash borer modeling methods for future forest projections
• Expansion and contraction tension zones in western pinon-juniper woodlands under projected climate change
• Projected trends in forest habitat classes under climate and land-use change scenarios
• Site productivity - current estimates, change, and possible enhancements for the Northern Research Station
• Understanding trends in observations of forest disturbance and their underlying causal processes
• Improving automated disturbance maps using snow-covered landsat time series stacks
• Adding value to the FIA inventory: combining FIA data and satellite observations to estimate forest disturbance
• Using forest inventory data along with spatial lag and spatial error regression to determine the impact of southern pine plantations on species diversity and richness in the central Gulf Coastal Plain
• Technical aspects of the forest carbon inventory of the United States: recent past and near future
• Recent changes in the estimation of standing dead tree biomass and carbon stocks in the U.S. forest inventory
• The climate change performance scorecard and carbon estimates for national forest
• Assessing estimation techniques for missing plot observations in the U.S. forest inventory
• Mapping forest soil organic matter on New Jersey's coastal plain
• Beech status in New England's aftermath forests
• Estimating tree cavity distributions from historical FIA data
• Building improved models of sugar maple mortality
• Utility of tree crown condition indicators to predict tree survival using remeasured Forest Inventory and Analysis data
• Temporal trends of forest interior conditions in the United States
• Monitoring Trends and Burn Severity (MTBS): Monitoring wildfire activity for the past quarter century using landsat data
• Analysis of the deforestation problem in tropical Latin America
• A GIS-based tool for estimating tree canopy cover on fixed-radius plots using high-resolution aerial imagery
• Building capacity for providing canopy cover and canopy height at FIA plot locations using high-resolution imagery and leaf-off LiDAR
• Canopy cover estimates for individual tree attributes
• Relating FIA data to habitat classifications via tree-based models of canopy cover
• The national picture of nonnative plants in the United States according to FIA data
• Distribution and occupancy of introduced species: a baseline inventory from Phase 3 plots across the country
• Updating the southern nonnative plant watch list: the future of NNIP Monitoring in the south
• Invasive potential of invasive plants in the forest of the southern region, United States
• Invasive plant monitoring for northern U.S. forests
• Sampling forest regeneration across northern U.S. forests: filling a void in regeneration model input
• Information for forest process models: a review of NRS-FIA vegetation measurements
• Development and applications of the LANDFIRE forest structure layers
• Characterizing environmental change in interior Alaska (1982-2012) using multi-temporal, multi-scale remote sensing data and field measurements
• Relationship between crown dieback and drought in the southeastern United States
• Assessing forest mortality patterns using climate and FIA data at multiple scales
• Estimators used in the New Mexico inventory: practical implications of "truly" random nonresponse within each stratum
• Estimating root collar diameter growth for multi-stem western woodland tree species on remeasured forest inventory and analysis plots
• The improvement of precision for estimating the abundance of standing dead trees using auxiliary information under the FIA pot design
• Optimized endogenous post-stratification in forest inventories
• Properties of the endogenous post-stratified estimator using a random forests model
• Improved prediction of hardwood tree biomass derived from wood density estimates and form factors for whole trees
• Biomass measurement and modeling challenges for hardwood species in the northern region
• Strategies for assessing inter- and intra-specific variation in tree biomass in the interior west
• Impacts of nitrogen and sulfur deposition on the growth of red spruce and sugar maple in the United States
• Verification of the Jenkins and FIA sapling biomass equations for hardwood species in Maine
• Assessing the uncertainty of forest carbon estimates using the FVS family of diameter increment equations
• Analysis of tracheid development in suppressed-growth Ponderosa Pine using the FPL ring profiler
• Ring profiler: a new method for estimating tree-ring density for improved estimates of carbon storage
• Cumulative volume and mass profiles for dominant stems and whole trees tested for northern hardwoods
• FIA's volume-to-biomass conversion method (CRM) generally underestimates biomass in comparison to published equations
• Applying inventory methods to estimate aboveground biomass from satellite light detection and ranging (LiDAR) forest height data
• Utility of LiDAR for large area forest inventory applications
• An efficient estimator to monitor rapidly changing forest conditions
• The fourth dimension in FIA
• Improving FIA trend analysis through model-based estimation using landsat disturbance maps and the forest vegetation simulator
• Advancements in LiDAR-based registration of FIA field plots
• A comparison of FIA plot data derived from image pixels and image objects
• Poster abstracts of Moving from status to trends: Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) symposium 2012
• Abstracts of Moving from status to trends: Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) symposium 2012
• Is lodgepole pine mortality due to mountain pine beetle linked to the North American Monsoon?
• Trends in standing biomass in Interior West forests: Reassessing baseline data from periodic inventories
• Mapping aspen in the Interior West

Keywords

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

Citation

Morin, Randall S.; Liknes, Greg C., comps. 2012. Moving from Status to Trends: Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Symposium 2012; 2012 December 4-6; Baltimore, MD. Gen. Tech. Rep. NRS-P-105. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station. CD-ROM . 478 p.