Assessment and Mapping of Forest Parcel Sizes

Brett J. Butler; Susan L. King

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Assessment and Mapping of Forest Parcel Sizes

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Brett J. Butler, Susan L. King

Year:

2005

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: Proceedings of the fifth annual forest inventory and analysis symposium; 2003 November 18-20; New Orleans, LA. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-69. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. 222p.

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Abstract

A method for analyzing and mapping forest parcel sizes in the Northeastern United States is presented. A decision tree model was created that predicts forest parcel size from spatially explicit predictor variables: population density, State, percentage forest land cover, and road density. The model correctly predicted parcel size for 60 percent of the observations in a validation data set (weighted kappa = 0.45). This decision tree model was used to create a map representing the average forest parcel size across the region.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the fifth annual forest inventory and analysis symposium

Citation

Butler, Brett J.; King, Susan L. 2005. Assessment and Mapping of Forest Parcel Sizes. In: Proceedings of the fifth annual forest inventory and analysis symposium; 2003 November 18-20; New Orleans, LA. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-69. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. 222p.