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Listen to your Customers
Sampling Techniques for Forest Resource Inventory pp 1-24
Elementary Forest Sampling pp 1-13

Production in Forest Inventory - What is it?
Sampling Techniques for Forest Resource Inventory pp 30-39
Elementary Forest Sampling pp 20-28

Sampling Techniques for Forest Resource Inventory pp 40-44 & 64-70
Elementary Forest Sampling pp 60-61

Plot Spacing in Systematic Sampling
Sampling Techniques for Forest Resource Inventory 116-149
Elementary Forest Sampling pp 28-36

Sampling Techniques for Forest Resource Inventory 157-189 & 302-307
Elementary Forest Sampling pp 36-43

Midterm - You should be studying

Ter-Micaelian and Korzukhin, 1997
Sampling Techniques for Forest Resource Inventory 190-229
Elementary Forest Sampling pp 43-50 & 64-68

Sampling Techniques for Forest Resource Inventory 230-267
Elementary Forest Sampling pp 50-60

Using a large-angle gauge to select trees for measurement in
variable plot sampling

Some Current Subsampling Techniques in Forestry

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Additional Resources

Forest Inventory Techniques

Measuring and Monitoring Plant Populations - BLM (PDF)
Elementary Forest Sampling USDA Handbook 232 (PDF)

Sampling Rare Populations CWD Example (PDF)
Sampling Rare Populations: LIS (PDF)
Sampling Rare Populations: CWD using LIS (PDF)


Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR)

 

Western Forester April 2008 (PDF)

PNW USFS Newsletter (PDF) 

Journal of Forestry Example (PDF)
USFS (IEEE) Example (PDF)
Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing Example (PDF)
Bioscience Example (PDF)

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing Example 1 (PDF)

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing Example 2 (PDF)

PNW USFS Research Paper on Lidar for Canopy Fuels (PDF)

Trees (journal) Example (PDF) 

Project: PDFs You might find useful

FOR 274 GIS Stand Delineation Lab (PDF)
FOR 274 FVS Data Entry Lab (PDF)
FOR 451 FVS Work through (PDF)
FOR 274/FOR 451 Field Sheets (XLS)

Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) Information

Essential FVS: A User’s Guide to the Forest Vegetation Simulator
Keyword Reference Guide for the Forest Vegetation Simulator
User's Guide to the Post Processors for the Forest Vegetation Simulator
Inland Empire Variant Guide
Format4FVS
FVSWriter

University of Idaho Experimental Forest GIS Files

UIEF boundary shapefile (zip)
streams shapefile (zip)
stands 2000 shapefile (zip)
roads shapefile (zip)
http://inside.uidaho.edu/default.htm

*All files are NAD83 Zone 11 UTM