Plot intensity and cycle-length effects on growth and removals estimates from forest inventories

著者

  • Paul Van Deusen NCASI
  • Francis A. Roesch USDA Forest Service Southern Station Asheville, NC

キーワード:

Forest inventory、 Remote Sensing、 Remeasurement Cycle、 FIA data

要旨

ontinuous forest inventories use permanent plots that are remeasured to provide information on growth, removals and mortality. Typically, all plots are remeasured within a narrow time span, but the USDA Forest Service has popularized a variant referred to as an annual forest inventory where a percentage of the permanent plots are remeasured every year. We discuss trade-offs between number of field plots and cycle length and provide some insight with example applications showing how these decisions impact growth and removals estimates. We also discuss a variant of the traditional growth over removals ratio estimator that limits degradation in estimate quality as cycle lengths increase.

著者略歴

  • Paul Van Deusen、 NCASI
    Forest Biometrician

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発行日

2015-03-30

巻号

セクション

Sampling and Natural Resource Inventories

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