Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Forest Inventory and Analysis Symposium; 2005 October 3–6; Portland, ME
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United States Department of Proceedings of the Agriculture Forest Service Seventh Annual Forest Gen. Tech. Report WO-77 Inventory and Analysis August 2007 Symposium Edited by Ronald E. McRoberts Gregory A. Reams Paul C. Van Deusen William H. McWilliams Portland, ME October 3–6, 2005 Sponsored by USDA Forest Service, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Society of American Foresters, International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, and Section on Statistics and the Environment of the American Statistical Association McRoberts, Ronald E.; Reams, Gregory A.; Van Deusen, Paul C.; McWilliams, William H., eds. 2007. Proceedings of the seventh annual forest inventory and analysis symposium; 2005 October 3–6; Portland, ME. Gen. Tech. Report WO-77. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service. 319 p. Documents contributions to forest inventory in the areas of sampling, remote sensing, modeling, information management and analysis for the Forest Inventory and Analysis program of the USDA Forest Service. KEY WORDS: Sampling, estimation, remote sensing, modeling, information science, policy, analysis Disclaimer Papers published in these proceedings were submitted by authors in electronic media. Editing was done to ensure a consistent format. Authors are responsible for content and accuracy of their individual papers. The views and opinions expressed in this report are those of the presenters and authors and do not necessarily reflect the policies and opinions of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The use of trade or firm names in this publication is for reader information and does not imply endorsement by the U.S. Department of Agriculture of any product or service. 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Preface The Seventh Annual Forest Inventory and Analysis presenters and convey special thanks to those who submitted Symposium was held October 3–6, 2005, in Portland, ME. their papers for these proceedings. The symposium featured participation, including 18 presentations, by scientists from 12 foreign countries. In Ronald E. McRoberts addition, the trend for participation by scientists from outside Gregory A. Reams the formal Forest Inventory and Analysis program continues to Paul C. Van Deusen increase. The symposium organizers thank all participants and William H. McWilliams 2005 Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Forest Inventory and Analysis Symposium iii iv 2005 Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Forest Inventory and Analysis Symposium Contents Austrian National Forest Inventory: Caught in the Past and Heading Toward the Future Policy Klemens Schadauer, Thomas Gschwantner, and Karl Gabler ................................................................47 Forest Inventory: Role in Accountability for Sustainable Forest Management Italian National Forest Inventory: Methods, State of the Project, Lloyd C. Irland ...................................................................1 and Future Developments Giovanni Tabacchi, Flora De Natale, Antonio A History of U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Floris, Caterina Gagliano, Patrizia Gasparini, Forest Survey, 1830–2004 Gianfranco Scrinzi, and Vittorio Tosi .............................55 Vernon J. LaBau, James T. Bones, Neal P. Kingsley, H. Gyde Lund, and W. Brad Smith ....................................9 A New Flexible Forest Inventory in France C. Vidal, T. Bélouard, J.-C. Hervé, N. Robert, Separating the Cows From the Trees: Toward Development and J. Wolsack .................................................................67 of National Definitions of Forest and Rangeland H. Gyde Lund ..................................................................11 Analysis Society of American Foresters—An Advocacy for Forest An Investigation of Condition Mapping and Plot Proportion Inventory Calculation Issues John W. Moser, Jr. ...........................................................21 Demetrios Gatziolis .........................................................75 International Deriving Simple and Adjusted Financial Rates of Return on Mississippi Timber Lands by Combining Forest Inventory Tree Communities of Lowland Warm-Temperate Old-Growth and Analysis and Timber Mart-South Data and Neighboring Shelterbelt Forests in the Shikoku Region Andrew J. Hartsell ...........................................................81 of Southwestern Japan Shigeo Kuramoto, Shigenori Oshioka, Identifying Areas of Relative Change in Forest Fragmentation Takahisa Hirayama, Kaori Sato, and Yasumasa Hirata ...25 in New Hampshire Between 1990 and 2000 Tonya Lister, Andrew Lister, William McWilliams, Development of a National Forest Inventory for Carbon and Rachel Riemann ........................................................89 Accounting Purposes in New Zealand’s Planted Kyoto Forests The Virtual Analyst Program: Automated Data Mining, Error John Moore, Ian Payton, Larry Burrows, Chris Goulding, Analysis, and Reporting Peter Beets, Paul Lane, and Peter Stephens .....................31 W. Keith Moser, Mark H. Hansen, Patrick Miles, Barbara Johnson, and Ronald E. McRoberts ...................97 Current and Emerging Operational Uses of Remote Sensing in Swedish Forestry A Comparison of Tree Crown Condition in Areas With and Håkan Olsson, Mikael Egberth, Jonas Engberg, Johan Without Gypsy Moth Activity E.S. Fransson, Tina Granqvist Pahlén, Olle Hagner, KaDonna C. Randolph ...................................................107 Johan Holmgren, Steve Joyce, Mattias Magnusson, Björn Nilsson, Mats Nilsson, Kenneth Olofsson, Searching for American Chestnut: The Estimation of Rare Heather Reese, and Jörgen Wallerman ............................39 Species Attributes in a National Forest Inventory Francis A. Roesch and William H. McWilliams ...........115 2005 Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Forest Inventory and Analysis Symposium v Rapid Forest Change in the Interior West Presents Analysis The Status of Accurately Locating Forest Inventory and Opportunities and Challenges Analysis Plots Using the Global Positioning System John D. Shaw .................................................................127 Michael Hoppus and Andrew Lister ..............................179 Forests on the Edge: Evaluating Contributions of and Threats to Mapping Forest Inventory and Analysis Forest Land Use: America’s Private Forest Lands Timberland, Reserved Forest Land, and Other Forest Land Susan M. Stein, Mark Hatfield, Ronald E. McRoberts, Mark D. Nelson and John Vissage .................................185 Dacia M. Meneguzzo, Mike Dechter, Xiaoping Zhou, John Mills, Mike Eley, Greg C. Liknes, John W. Use of LIDAR for Forest Inventory and Forest Management Coulston, and Sara Comas .............................................135 Application Birgit Peterson, Ralph Dubayah, Peter Hyde, Michelle Relationships Between the Attributes of Standing Live and Hofton, J. Bryan Blair, and JoAnn Fites-Kaufman ........193 Dead Down Trees in Forests of the Lake States Christopher W. Woodall and Linda Nagel ....................143 Sampling and Estimation Remote Sensing and Spatial Analyses Area-Independent Sampling for Basal Area James W. Flewelling ......................................................201 Thematic and Positional Accuracy Assessment of Digital Remotely Sensed Data On Estimation in k-tree Sampling Russell G. Congalton .....................................................149 Christoph Kleinn and František Vilcko .........................203 The Spatial Distribution of Riparian Ash: Implications for the Grid-Based Sampling Designs and Area Estimation Dispersal of the Emerald Ash Borer Joseph M. McCollum .....................................................209 Susan J. Crocker, W. Keith Moser, Mark H. Hansen, and Mark D. Nelson ..............................................................155 New Methods for Sampling Sparse Populations Anna Ringvall ................................................................215 The Investigation of Classification Methods of High-Resolution Imagery Location Uncertainty and the Tri-Areal Design Tracey S. Frescino, Gretchen G. Moisen, Larry DeBlander, Francis A. Roesch ..........................................................221 and Michel Guerin .........................................................161 The Poor Man’s Geographic Information System: Plot Measurement of Forest Disturbance and Regrowth With Expansion Factors Landsat and Forest Inventory and Analysis Data: Paul C. Van Deusen .......................................................227 Anticipated Benefits From Forest and Inventory Analysis’ Collaboration With the National Aeronautics and Space Improving Coarse Woody Debris