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Estimating the quadratic mean diameter of fine woody debris for forest type groups of the United States.
Woodall, Christopher W.; Monleon, Vicente J. - 2009
technique known as the graphical estimation (GE) method for estimating FWD QMDs for major forest types across the United States …. Results indicate that the GE method, along with adaptations proposed in this study, allows for rapid estimation of FWD QMDs …
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Estimating Current Forest Attributes from Paneled Inventory Data Using Plot-Level Imputation: A Study from the Pacific Northwest.
Eskelson, Bianca N.I.; Temesgen, Hailemariam; Barrett, … - 2009
Information on current forest condition is essential to assess and characterize resources and to support resource management and policy decisions. The 1998 Farm Bill mandates the US Forest Service to conduct annual inventories to provide annual updates of each state's forest. In annual...
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Estimating Current Forest Attributes from Paneled Inventory Data Using Plot-Level Imputation: A Study from the Pacific Northwest.
Eskelson, Bianca N.I.; Temesgen, Hailemariam; Barrett, … - 2009
Information on current forest condition is essential to assess and characterize resources and to support resource management and policy decisions. The 1998 Farm Bill mandates the US Forest Service to conduct annual inventories to provide annual updates of each state's forest. In annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429485
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Implementing the measurement interval midpoint method for change estimation.
Westfall, James A.; Frieswyk, Thomas; Griffith, Douglas M. - 2009
The adoption of nationally consistent estimation procedures for the Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program …
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Remote sensing support for national forest inventories.
McRoberts, Ronald E.; Tomppo, Erkki O. - 2007
technological innovations that contribute to measurement and estimation efficiencies and that facilitate the production and … involved remotely sensed data and related statistical estimation techniques. Current applications of remote sensing in support … sensed data in lieu of field observations or measurements; (2) estimation, meaning calculation of traditional inventory areal …
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