A primer on stand and forest inventory designs

H. Gyde Lund; Charles E. Thomas

doi:10.2737/WO-GTR-54

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A primer on stand and forest inventory designs

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Authors:

H. Gyde Lund, Charles E. Thomas

Year:

1989

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Washington Office

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2737/WO-GTR-54

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-54. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. 96 p.

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Abstract

Covers designs for the inventory of stands and forests in detail and with worked-out examples. For stands, random sampling, line transects, ricochet plot, systematic sampling, single plot, cluster, subjective sampling and complete enumeration are discussed. For forests inventory, the main categories are subjective sampling, inventories without prior stand mapping, inventories with prior stand mapping, inventories using existing stand information, and complete enumeration. Systematic sampling, stratified sampling, equal probability sampling, probability sampling proportional to size, etc. are presented.

Citation

Lund, H. Gyde.; Thomas, Charles E. 1989. A primer on stand and forest inventory designs. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-54. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. 96 p.