Impact of Definitions of FIA Variables and Compilation Procedures on Inventory Compilation Results in Georgia

Brock Stewart; Chris J. Cieszewski; Michal Zasada

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Impact of Definitions of FIA Variables and Compilation Procedures on Inventory Compilation Results in Georgia

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Brock Stewart, Chris J. Cieszewski, Michal Zasada

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

This paper presents a sensitivity analysis of the impact of various definitions and inclusions of different variables in the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) inventory on data compilation results. FIA manuals have been changing recently to make the inventory consistent between all the States. Our analysis demonstrates the importance (or insignificance) of different variations of the compilation procedures on the statistical summaries regarding volume and area distributions.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the fifth annual forest inventory and analysis symposium

Citation

Stewart, Brock; Cieszewski, Chris J.; Zasada, Michal. 2005. Impact of Definitions of FIA Variables and Compilation Procedures on Inventory Compilation Results in Georgia. 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.