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Abstract
Manually setting up, executing, and post-processing FVS simulations can be a time-consuming and tedious process. Furthermore, stand polygons appropriate for use in FVS simulations are not universally available, nor is relatively current ready-to-use tree inventory data with which to parameterize those stands. We solved these problems by utilizing the FIA-based TreeMap dataset (Riley et al. 2021) in an innovative collection of scripts that can be executed on-demand through an in-house microservice computing infrastructure.
Parent Publication
Keywords
forest management,
forest planning,
growth and yield,
vegetation dynamics,
habitat modeling,
carbon inventory,
landscape dynamics,
fire,
fuels,
climate change,
economics,
tree-rings
Citation
Schmidt, David A.; Buchholz, Thomas; Saah, David. 2024. Automating high-resolution, large-extent FVS simulations for a carbon accounting protocol. In: Shaw, John D; Battaglia, Mike A.; Castle, Mark, [comps.]. Sixth Forest Vegetation Simulator Conference; 2023 March 7-9; Fort Collins, CO. Proceedings RMRS-P-81. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 54-56.
