SAMPLING METHODS, REMOTE SENSING AND GIS MULTIRESOURCE FOREST INVENTORY

By JOHN GARCIA

CONTENTS FOREST INVENTORIES — AN OVERVIEW FOCUS OBJECTIVES A TYPOLOGY OF FOREST INVENTORIES INVENTORY PLANNING FOREST MENSURATION INTRODUCTION AREA INFORMATION FOREST AREA DEFINITIONS ASSESSMENT OF FOREST AREA TREE INFORMATION AND INFORMATION FOR CHARACTERIZING THE GROWING STOCK SPECIES IDENTIFICATION DIAMETER AT BREAST HEIGHT AND UPPER-STEM DIAMETERS CROSS-SECTIONAL AREA MEASUREMENT HEIGHT BARK THICKNESS TREE FORM VOLUME WEIGHT AND WOOD DENSITY BIOMASS QUANTIFICATION OF TIMBER QUALITY AGE GROWTH AND INCREMENT DENSITY SAMPLING IN FOREST SURVEYS BASIC CONCEPTS POPULATION, SAMPLES, AND ESTIMATORS PROBABILITY SAMPLING DEFINITIONS AND NOTATIONS PROPERTIES OF ESTIMATORS SURVEY DESIGN AND SAMPLING DESIGN SIMPLE RANDOM SAMPLING ESTIMATING THE POPULATION MEAN SAMPLING ERROR CONFIDENCE INTERVALS FOR SAMPLE ESTIMATES ESTIMATING THE POPULATION TOTAL DETERMINING SAMPLE SIZE SAMPLING FOR PROPORTIONS AND PERCENTAGES RATIO ESTIMATORS ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF SRS SYSTEMATIC SAMPLING CLUSTER SAMPLING TWO-STAGE CLUSTER SAMPLING TWO-STAGE CLUSTER SAMPLING FOR THE ESTIMATION OF PROPORTIONS TWO-STAGE CLUSTER SAMPLING WITH STRATIFICATION OF THE PRIMARY UNITS STRATIFIED SAMPLING SAMPLE ALLOCATION ESTIMATION OF POPULATION MEANS AND TOTALS UNDER STRATIFIED SAMPLING ESTIMATION OF PROPORTIONS UNDER STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING DESIGN EFFECT POSTSTRATIFICATION PROS AND CONS OF STRATIFIED SAMPLING TWO-PHASE SAMPLING TWO-PHASE SAMPLING WITH REGRESSION ESTIMATORS TWO-PHASE SAMPLING FOR STRATIFICATION MULTIPHASE SAMPLING ERRORS IN FOREST SURVEYS NON-SAMPLING INVENTORY ERRORS NONOBSERVATION MEASUREMENT ERRORS ESTIMATING NONSAMPLING ERRORS AND BIAS SELECTION OF TREES ON SAMPLING UNITS TREE SELECTION WITH FIXED-AREA SAMPLING UNITS SCALING OF INDIVIDUAL TREE DATA INTO SAMPLE PLOT VALUES POINT SAMPLING POINT SAMPLING VERSUS FIXED-AREA PLOTS SAMPLING AT THE FOREST EDGE SAMPLING ON SUCCESSIVE OCCASIONS CONTINUOUS FOREST INVENTORY SAMPLING WITH PARTIAL REPLACEMENT OF SAMPLE PLOTS ESTIMATES FOR SUBPOPULATIONS SAMPLING FOR RARE AND ELUSIVE POPULATIONS ADAPTIVE CLUSTER SAMPLING SAMPLING WITH PROBABILITY PROPORTIONAL TO SIZE LINE TRANSECT SAMPLING CAPTURE–RECAPTURE SAMPLING INVERSE SAMPLING DOUBLE SAMPLING COMPOSITE SAMPLING SMALL-AREA ESTIMATION DIRECT SMALL-AREA ESTIMATORS SYNTHETIC SMALL-AREA ESTIMATORS COMPOSITE SMALL-AREA ESTIMATORS MODEL-BASED SMALL-AREA ESTIMATION SMALL-AREA ESTIMATION BY BLOCK KRIGING EMPIRICAL BAYESIAN METHODS FOR SMALL-AREA ESTIMATION K NEAREST-NEIGHBOR PREDICTION RESAMPLING FOR NONLINEAR INVENTORY STATISTICS THE BOOTSTRAP THE JACKKNIFE RESAMPLING THE PÒLYA-URN RESAMPLING SCHEME REMOTE SENSING ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM INTERACTIONS WITH THE ATMOSPHERE RADIATION–TARGET INTERACTIONS PASSIVE AND ACTIVE SENSING CHARACTERISTICS AND ANALYSIS OF IMAGES IMAGE RESOLUTION IMAGE PROCESSING VISUAL COMPUTER-AIDED INTERPRETATION THE INSTRUMENTS AND THEIR USE COARSE SPATIAL RESOLUTION SENSORS MEDIUM AND HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION SENSORS VERY HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION SENSORS HYPERSPECTRAL SENSORS MICROWAVE SENSORS LASER SENSORS ACCURACY REQUIREMENTS ACCURACY OF POSITION AND OF CLASSIFICATION TESTING THE ACCURACY OF BORDERLINES GEOGRAPHIC AND FOREST INFORMATION SYSTEMS GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS SPATIAL DATA SPATIAL ANALYSES SINGLE-LAYER OPERATIONS MULTILAYER OPERATIONS PATTERN ANALYSIS STATISTICAL MEASURES STUDY OF SPATIAL ARRANGEMENT SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION NETWORK ANALYSIS SURFACE ANALYSIS ORGANIZATION OF SURFACE INFORMATION SPATIAL INTERPOLATION GRID ANALYSIS GEOSTATISTICAL METHODS FOREST INFORMATION SYSTEMS METHODICAL COMPONENTS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS MULTIRESOURCE FOREST INVENTORY FOREST PRODUCTION FROM TREE VOLUME TO UTILIZED TIMBER VOLUME ACCESS STUDIES NONWOOD GOODS AND SERVICES HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE DEFINITION OF NONWOOD GOODS AND SERVICES CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS FOR NONWOOD GOODS AND SERVICES NATIONAL NONWOOD FOREST PRODUCT ACCOUNTING END USE AND PLANT USE CLASSIFICATIONS CLASSIFICATION BASED ON LIFE FORMS AND PLANT PARTS CLASSIFICATION ACCORDING TO MANAGEMENT CHARACTERISTICS THE ASSESSMENT OF NONWOOD GOODS AND SERVICES FOREST ECOSYSTEMS AND BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY 2 BIODIVERSITY INDICATORS ASSESSMENT OF THE FOREST EDGE SAMPLING DIVERSITY ASSESSMENT OF RARE SPECIES BY ADAPTIVE CLUSTER SAMPLING PLANT DENSITY ESTIMATION ASSESSMENT OF DEADWOOD BY TRANSECT RELASKOP SAMPLING AND GUIDED TRANSECT SAMPLING LANDSCAPE ANALYSIS THE THEORY OF WINDOWS TREES OUTSIDE FORESTS FOREST FIRES ASSESSMENT AND MODELING OF WILDFIRE RISKS DETECTING FIRES AND EMISSIONS MAPPING BURNED AREAS VEGETATION INDICES AND FOREST FIRES INDICES FOR DANGER ASSESSMENT