Challenges of working with FIADB17 data: the SOLE experience

Michael Spinney; Paul Van Deusen

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Challenges of working with FIADB17 data: the SOLE experience

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Michael Spinney, Paul Van Deusen

Year:

2007

Type:

Other

Station:

Northern Research Station

Source:

In: McRoberts, Ronald E.; Reams, Gregory A.; Van Deusen, Paul C.; McWilliams, William H., eds. Proceedings of the seventh annual forest inventory and analysis symposium; October 3-6, 2005; Portland, ME. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-77. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service: 307-308.

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Abstract

The Southern On Line Estimator (SOLE) is an Internet-based Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data analysis tool. SOLE is based on data downloaded from the publicly available FIA database (FIADB) and summarized by plot condition. The tasks of downloading, processing, and summarizing FIADB data require specialized expertise in inventory theory and data manipulation. The FIADB is an important FIA product that should be made as easy to use and as error free as possible. Some of the errors that have been found in the FIADB are outlined here along with the incremental steps made toward improving it over the past year.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the seventh annual forest inventory and analysis symposium

Citation

Spinney, Michael; Van Deusen, Paul. 2007. Challenges of working with FIADB17 data: the SOLE experience. In: McRoberts, Ronald E.; Reams, Gregory A.; Van Deusen, Paul C.; McWilliams, William H., eds. Proceedings of the seventh annual forest inventory and analysis symposium; October 3-6, 2005; Portland, ME. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-77. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service: 307-308.