Pushing boundaries: new directions in inventory techniques and applications: Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) symposium 2015
| Authors: | Sharon M. Stanton, Glenn A. Christensen |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Type: | General Technical Report |
| Station: | Pacific Northwest Research Station |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.2737/PNW-GTR-931 |
| Source: | Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-931. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 384 p. |
Abstract
These proceedings report invited presentations and contributions to the 2015 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 general topic areas, including forest carbon accounting, change detection, and techniques development. Symposium papers cover high priority and timely issue-based topics including climate change, carbon flux, wildlife, disturbance, bioenergy, geo-spatial extensions, change monitoring, and integrating remote sensing and GIS applications.Titles contained within Pushing boundaries: new directions in inventory techniques and applications: Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) symposium 2015
- The research contributions of Dr. Paul Van Deusen
- Additivity and maximum likelihood estimation of nonlinear component biomass models
- Building generalized tree mass/volume component models for improved estimation of forest stocks and utilization potential
- Methods for estimating aboveground biomass and its components for five Pacific Northwest tree species
- Legacy tree data: A national database of detailed tree measurements for volume, weight, and physical properties
- Gaps in sampling and limitations to tree biomass estimation: a review of past sampling efforts over the past 50 years
- Ratio equations for loblolly pine trees
- The 2014 tanana inventory pilot: A USFS-NASA partnership to leverage advanced remote sensing technologies for forest inventory
- A bayesian hierarchical model for spatio-temporal prediction and uncertainty assessment using repeat LiDAR acquisitions for the Kenai Peninsula, AK, USA
- Down woody material, soil and tree core collection and analysis from the 2014 Tanana pilot plots
- Characterizing forest vegetation of the Tanana Valley: what can forest inventory and analysis deliver?
- Evaluating carbon stores at the earth-atmosphere interface: moss and lichen mats of subarctic Alaska
- An evaluation of FIA's stand age variable
- Analysis issues due to mapped conditions changing over time
- Are observed trends in hardwood tree grade due to resource changes or data anomalies?
- Assessment of national biomass in complex forests and technical capacity scenarios
- Using forest inventory and analysis data to understand biotic resistance to plant invasions across the Eastern United States
- Seeing the forest for the trees: utilizing modified random forests imputation of forest plot data for landscape-level analyses
- Development of forest regeneration imputation models using permanent plots in Oregon and Washington
- Effects of height and live crown ratio imputation strategies on stand biomass estimation
- FIA data and species diversity—successes and failures using multivariate analysis techniques, spatial lag and error models and hot-spot analysis
- When does biodiversity matter? Assessing ecosystem services across broad regions using forest inventory and analysis data
- FIESTA—An R estimation tool for FIA analysts
- Using small area estimation and Lidar-derived variables for multivariate prediction of forest attributes
- Batch reporting of forest inventory statistics using the EVALIDator
- Project CAPTURE: using forest inventory and analysis data to prioritize tree species for conservation, management, and restoration
- Development of full regeneration establishment models for the forest vegetation simulator
- Modeling urban host tree distributions for invasive forest insects using a two-step approach
- Understanding macroscale invasion patterns and processes with FIA data
- Early-seral stand age and forest structural changes in public and private forestlands in Western Oregon and Washington
- An early look at forest regeneration indicator results for the Midwest and Northeast United States
- Forest disturbances trigger erosion controlled fluxes of nitrogen, phosphorus and dissolved carbon
- Using landsat time-series and lidar to inform aboveground carbon baseline estimation in Minnesota
- The new forest carbon accounting framework for the United States
- Future forest carbon accounting challenges: the question of regionalization
- The great carbon push-pull: where science is pushing and policy is pulling the official forest carbon inventory of the US
- Hierarchical models for informing general biomass equations with felled tree data
- Litter carbon stocks in forests of the US are markedly smaller than previously reported
- Incorporating climate into belowground carbon estimates in the national greenhouse gas inventory
- Leveraging FIA data for analysis beyond forest reports: examples from the world of carbon
- Advancing individual tree biomass prediction: assessment and alternatives to the component ratio method
- Reducing uncertainty and increasing consistency: technical improvements to forest carbon pool estimation using the national forest inventory of the US
- Dead wood inventory and assessment in South Korea
- Using FIA and landsat observations to improve the spatial and temporal resolution of forest carbon estimates
- The future of the U.S. forest carbon sink
- Development of carbon response trajectories using FIA plot data and FVS growth simulator: challenges of a large scale simulation project
- Utilizing Forest Inventory and Analysis Data, Remote Sensing, and Ecosystem Models for National Forest System Carbon Assessments
- The role of old forests and big trees in forest carbon sequestration in the Pacific Northwest
- Change detection for soil carbon in the forest inventory and analysis
- Extrapolating existing soil organic carbon data to estimate soil organic carbon stocks below 20 cm
- Adding net growth, removals, and mortality estimates for biomass and carbon in FIADB
- Implementing a national process for estimating growth, removals, and mortality at the Pacific Northwest’s Forest Inventory and Analysis’s Region: modeling diameter growth
- A diameter growth model for single-stem growth forms for the interior west forest inventory and analysis’s region
- A diameter growth model for the SRS FIA
- Everything you ever wanted to know about GRM* (*but were afraid to ask)
- Hurricane impacts on forest resources in the Eastern United States: a post-sandy assessment
- Cloud-based computation for accelerating vegetation mapping and change detection at regional to national scales
- Land-use change and new houses on forestland: contrasting trends over 30 years in Oregon and Washington
- Examining Pseudotsuga menziesii biomass change dynamics through succession using a regional forest inventory system
- Remeasured FIA plots reveal tree-level diameter growth and tree mortality impacts of nitrogen deposition on California’s forests
- US forests are showing increased rates of decline in response to a changing climate
- A space-time look at two-phase estimation for improved annual inventory estimates
- Repeated measures from FIA data facilitates analysis across spatial scales of tree growth responses to nitrogen deposition from individual trees to whole ecoregions
- Central African detail experience: what US FIA field staff can teach and learn through short term assignments—Democratic Republic of Congo and Cameroon
- Forest inventory and analysis program in the Western U.S.
- Lava, VOG, and tropical forests: working with the FIA program in Hawaii
- Collaborating for success: implementation of the interior Alaska inventory
- Regional biomass stores and dynamics in forests of coastal Alaska
- Harmonic analysis of dense time series of landsat imagery for modeling change in forest conditions
- Mapping timing, extent, type and magnitude of disturbances across the national forest system, 1990–2011
- ShapeSelectForest: a new r package for modeling landsat time series
- A novel statistical methodology to overcome sampling irregularities in the forest inventory data and to model forest changes under dynamic disturbance regimes
- Next-generation forest change mapping across the United States: the landscape change monitoring system (LCMS)
- Image-based change estimation (ICE): monitoring land use, land cover and agent of change information for all lands
- LCMS landscape change monitoring system—results from an information needs assessment
- Land cover change map comparisons using open source web mapping technologies
- Forest dynamics in the temperate rainforests of Alaska: from individual tree to regional scales
- Observed and projected C change in the Southeastern US
- Modeling post-fire woody carbon dynamics with data from remeasured inventory plots
- Redrawing the baseline: a method for adjusting biased historical forest estimates using a spatial and temporally representative plot network
- A regional assessment of emerald ash borer impacts in the Eastern United States: ash mortality and abundance trends in time and space
- On the road to national mapping and attribution of the processes underlying U.S
- Using an empirical and rule-based modeling approach to map cause of disturbance in U.S
- Nationwide disturbance attribution on NASA’s earth exchange: experiences in a high-end computing environment
- Forest service contributions to the national land cover database (NLCD): Tree Canopy Cover Production
- Research Activities in Support of High-Resolution Land Cover Mapping in the North Central United States
- Global ecosystem dynamics investigation (GEDI) LiDAR sampling strategy
- Development of a regional LiDAR field plot strategy for Oregon and Washington
- Refining FIA plot locations using LiDAR point clouds
- Forest inventory with LiDAR and stereo DSM on Washington department of natural resources lands
- Analysis of the U.S. forest tolerance patterns depending on current and future temperature and precipitation
- Applying management modeling to assess the feasibility of accelerating landscape restoration on federal forests in Eastern Oregon
- Large-area forest inventory regression modeling: spatial scale considerations
- An appraisal of the classic forest succession paradigm with the shade tolerance index
- Private forest landowners’ harvest and regeneration decisions—effect of proximity to primary wood-using mills
- Logging utilization research in the Pacific Northwest: residue prediction and unique research challenges
- Using TPO data to estimate timber demand in support of planning on the Tongass National Forest
- Ecosystem services: a new NRS-FIA analytical science initiative
- Reaching users at local scales: insights into the value of forest inventory information for education and outreach and the potential for an effective partnership between FIA, cooperative extension, and state and national conservation education partners
- The new face of America’s family forest owners: results from the 2011–2013 USDA Forest Service, national woodland owner survey
- America’s female family forest owners
- Moss as bio-indicators of human exposure to polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in Portland, OR
- “Lichens Lite?” chemical analysis of lichens for tracking 26 pollutants
- Expanding the FIA inventory to understand plant diversity in Palau’s conservation areas
- Using landscape-level forest monitoring data to draw a representative picture of an iconic subalpine tree species
- Using adjunct forest inventory methodology to quantify pinyon jay habitat in the great basin
- Estimating mangrove in Florida: trials monitoring rare ecosystems
- A baseline assessment of forest composition, structure, and health in the Hawai‘i experimental tropical forests
- DIY visualizations: opportunities for story-telling with esri tools
- Visual analysis of forest health using story maps: a tale of two forest insect pests
- Utilizing online technology to increase the data reach of the forest inventory and analysis program; examples from the Southern United States
- Implementing dashboards as a business intelligence tool in the forest inventory and analysis program
- Telling the story of tree species’ range shifts in a complex landscape
- The volumes and value of non-timber forest products harvested in the United States
- Non-timber forest products in Hawaii
- Using FIA inventory plot data to assess NTFP production possibilities
- New methods for estimating non-timber forest product output: an Appalachian case study
- How might FIA deliver more information on status and trends of non-timber forest products?
- Spatiotemporal patterns of ring-width variability in the northern interior west
- Estimating FIA plot characteristics using NAIP imagery, function modeling, and the RMRS Raster Utility coding library
- Estimating FIA plot characteristics using NAIP imagery, function modeling, and the RMRS raster utility coding library
- Evaluating the potential of structure from motion technology for forest inventory data collection
- Complementing forest inventory data with information from unmanned aerial vehicle imagery and photogrammetry
- Urban FIA: where we have been, where we are, and where we are going
- Austin's urban FIA: seamless rural to urban resource monitoring in Texas
- Going public: accessing urban data and producing population estimates using the urban FIA database
- The urban FIA inventory: plot design, data collection, data flow and processing
- i-Tree and urban FIA—what's the connection?
- The evolution of Wisconsin's urban FIA program—yesterday today and tomorrow
- NLCD tree canopy cover (TCC) maps of the contiguous United States and coastal Alaska
- Estimating carbon in forest soils of the United States using the national forest inventory
- An application of quantile random forests for predictive mapping of forest attributes
- Mapping forest canopy disturbance in the Upper Great Lakes, USA
- National forest change monitoring system in South Korea: an analysis of forest tree species distribution shifts
- Forest inventory and analysis program in the Western U.S
- Woody encroachment in the Central United States
- National report on sustainable forests—2015: conservation of biological diversity
- Consequences of data reduction in the FIA database: a case study with southern yellow pine
- Modeling aspen cover type diameter distributions in Minnesota
- Alternatives to estimate statewide changes in aspen cover type volumes
- Competition alters tree growth responses to climate at individual and stand scales