Integrated tools for natural resources inventories in the 21st century

Abstract

Includes 96 papers presented at the conference Integrated Tools for Natural Resources Inventories in the 21st Century, August 16-20, 1998, in Boise, Idaho, USA. This conference drew several hundred forest inventory and related professionals from multiple organizational levels and over 30 foreign countries. Topics covered include those related to natural resource inventory design, analysis and management applications; measurement consistency issues; data management, GIS and remote sensing applications; forest growth model interfaces; and special purpose inventories and applications.

Titles contained within Integrated tools for natural resources inventories in the 21st century

• Multiresource inventories incorporating GIS, GPS, and database management systems
• History and results of the Northern Forest Health Monitoring Program
• Basic truths for planning and executing an inventory
• A comparison of sample unit designs in the national inventory of the U.S.
• Towards an effective integration of forest inventories and natural resources surveys: the Italian perspective
• State-of-the-art technologies of forest inventory and monitoring in Taiwan
• History of forest survey sampling designs in the United States
• Rebuilding our legacy inventories: identifying the good and fixing the bad
• Pros and cons of continuous forest inventory: customer perspectives
• Selection of plot remeasurement in an annual inventory
• Some practical aspects of designing a large inventory
• Forest resource inventory assessment in Gunung Rara Forest Reserve, Sabah, using stratified field sampling
• A comparison of periodic versus permanent surveys
• An analysis of mortality inventory tally using large plots compared to tally using small plot clusters
• Some aspects of inventory integration
• Towards a plot size for Canada's national forest inventory
• Overview of the forest health monitoring program
• A prototype for forest health monitoring in Indiana state parks
• Setting monitoring objectives for landscape-size areas
• Boundary pint corrections for variable radius plots - simulation results
• Guided transect sampling - a new design combining prior information and field surveying
• Pseudo-CFI for industrial forest inventories
• An annualized forest inventory for Nebraska
• Effects of different definitions on forest area estimation in national forest inventories in Europe
• Required sample size for monitoring stand dynamics in strict forest reserves: a case study
• Alternative sampling designs and estimators for annual surveys
• Uncertainty estimation of the self-thinning process by Maximum-Entropy Principle
• Sources of uncertainty in annual forest inventory estimates
• Spatial interpolation of forest conditions using co-conditional geostatistical simulation
• A multivariate decision tree analysis of biophysical factors in tropical forest fire occurrence
• The use of multiple imputation in the Southern Annual Forest Inventory System
• Estimating two-way tables based on forest surveys
• Spatial terrain analysis for matching native tree species to sites: a methodology
• Can the functional stability of forest ecosystems be evaluated from the spatial analysis of stands? A case study from the Bialowieza Primeval Forest (Poland)
• Has Virginia pine declined? The use of forest health monitoring and other information in the determination
• Forest health monitoring in California, Oregon, and Washington: results and interpretation
• FIA forest inventory data for wildlife habitat assessment
• The forest as a warehouse
• Late-successional forests and northern spotted owls: how effective is the Northwest Forest Plan?
• Assessing forest fragmentation metrics from forest inventory cluster samples
• Forest cover type, habitat diversity, and anthropogenic influences on forest ecosystems adjoining the Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
• Integrated permanent plot and aerial monitoring for the spruce budworm decision support system
• An effectiveness monitoring program for the northwest forest plan: new approaches to common monitoring problems
• Evaluation of habitat suitability index models for assessing biotic resources
• Biological diversity in the Sikhote-Alin forests and measures of its conservation
• Tracking the health of trees over time on forest health monitoring plots
• Development of a stand-scale forest biodiversity index based on the state forest inventory
• Digital terrestrial photogrammetric methods for tree stem analysis
• Use of three-point taper systems in timber cruising
• A field test of cut-off importance sampling for bole volume
• Reliability assessment of selected indicators of tree health
• Quality control of measurements made on fixed-area sample plots
• Modeling variability and scale integration of LAI measurements
• Mathematical form models of tree trunks
• Comparison of optical dendrometers for prediction of standing tree volume
• Development of the B.C. Vegetation Inventory Training Program
• Using a ceptometer to validate a visual evaluation of the degree of defoliation of holm and cork oak trees
• Aboveground biomass equations for 7-year-old Acacia mangium Willd in Botucatu, Brazil
• Distributing stand inventory data and maps over a wide area network
• DataPlus™ - a revolutionary applications generator for DOS hand-held computers
• Eucalyptus Forest Information System for the Portuguese pulp and paper industry
• Defining and predicting urban-wildland interface zones using a GIS-based model
• Using sampling theory as the basis for a conceptual data model
• Growth and yield model application in tropical rain forest management
• Base-age invariance and inventory projections
• A review of methods for updating forest monitoring system estimates
• Assessing uncertainty in mechanistic models
• The AFIS tree growth model for updating annual forest inventories in Minnesota
• Validation databases for simulation models: aboveground biomass and net primary productive, (NPP) estimation using eastwide FIA data
• Calibration of the STEMS diameter growth model using FIA data
• A survival model for individual shortleaf pine trees in even-aged natural stands
• Comparing the STEMS and AFIS growth models with respect to the uncertainty of predictions
• Utilizing inventory information to calibrate a landscape simulation model
• Annual updating of plantation inventory estimates using hybrid models
• Maximum size-density relationships for mixed-hardwood forest stands in New England
• Adaptation of FIBER for Forest Inventory and Analysis growth projections in the State of Maine
• Inventory implications of using sampling variances in estimation of growth model coefficients
• Evaluating a model to predict timber harvesting in Austria
• A new sampling scheme for tropical forest monitoring using satellite imagery
• Assessing change in large-scale forest area by visually interpreting Landsat images
• Change detection using NALC MSS triplicates to set forest planning context
• Ground-based photo monitoring
• Development of a highly automated system for the remote evaluation of individual tree parameters
• Using Landsat Thematic Mapper and SPOT Satellite Imagery to inventory wetland plants of the Coeur d'Alene Floodplain
• Data fusion of Landsat TM and IRS images in forest classification
• A comparison between ERS-1, JERS-1, and Radarsat-1 radar satellite imaging systems and Landsat MSS & TM and Spot Optical Satellite Imaging System to detect and monitor mangrove deforestation in East Kalimantan, Indonesia
• Using secondary metabolites in the monitoring of the condition of tree stands under industrial pollution
• Integration of ecological indices in the multivariate evaluation of an urban inventory of street trees
• Modeling white-tailed deer activity patterns across forested landscapes
• Conservation and restoration of forested wetlands: new techniques and perspectives
• An inventory of multipurpose avenue trees of urban Chandigarh, India
• A strategy for monitoring Swiss needle cast and assessing its growth impact in Douglas-fir plantations of Coastal Oregon
• The Urban Forest Effects (UFORE) model: quantifying urban forest structure and functions
• Using widely spaced observations of land use, forest attributes, and intrusions to map resource potential and human impact probability
• Adequacy of different experimental designs for eucalyptus spacing trials in Portuguese environmental conditions
• The effect of SO₂ pollution on pine needle structure

Citation

Hansen, M.; Burk, T. 2000. Integrated tools for natural resources inventories in the 21st century. General Technical Report NC-212. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Forest Experiment Station. 744 p.