"A FOCUS ON ANNUAL FOREST INVENTORY "
THIRTY-FIFTH
MIDWEST FOREST MENSURATIONISTS' MEETING
THIRD ANNUAL
FOREST INVENTORY & ANALYSIS SYMPOSIUM
GRAND TRAVERSE RESORT
TRAVERSE CITY, MICHIGAN
October 17, 18 & 19, 2001
(18.5 SAF Category 1 Continuing Forestry Education Credits)
Wednesday, October 17, 2001
7:00
AM - 8:30 AM REGISTRATION: Michigan
Ballroom Foyer
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CONTINENTAL
BREAKFAST: Michigan Ballroom A & B
8:00 AM - 8:15 AM WELCOME
& INTRODUCTIONS: John Moser,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
* * * * * SESSION 1:
Michigan Ballroom A & B * * * * *
MODERATOR:
Samuel Radcliffe, George Banzhaf
& Company, Milwaukee, WI
8:15 AM - 9:15
AM FIA
program directions, priorities, and improvements, Panel members: Brad Smith, USDA Forest Service,
Washington, DC, Gerald Thiede,
Michigan DNR, Lansing, MI, Alan
Ek, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN,
Charles Scott, Northeastern
Research Station, Newtown Square, PA
9:15 AM - 9:45
AM The
National Woodland Owner Survey: quantifying ownership characteristics using
annual surveys, Brett Butler,
USDA Forest Service, Newtown Square, PA
9:45 AM -
10:15 AM How the National Resources Inventory (NRI) is transitioning to a
continuous inventory process, Jeff
Goebel, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Beltsville, MD
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM BREAK: Michigan Ballroom A & B
10:30 AM -
11:00 AM Issues related to FIA panel creep, Paul Van Deusen, NCASI,
Lowell, MA
11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Allometric scaling theory applied to FIA
biomass estimation, David Chojnacky, USDA Forest Service,
Washington, DC
11:30 AM - 12
Noon Per-tree
estimates with n-tree distance sampling, Thomas Lynch, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
12
Noon - 1:00 PM LUNCHEON: Michigan Ballroom C & D
* * * * * SESSION 2: Michigan Ballroom A & B * * * * *
MODERATOR: Steve
Prisley, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
1:15 PM - 1:45
PM Modeling
growth: point pattern analysis using FIA data, Chris Woodall, North Central Research Station, St. Paul, MN
1:45 PM - 2:15
PM Standard
Errors in Forest Inventory, Joe McCollum and Clark Baldwin, Southern Research
Station, Asheville, NC
2:15 PM - 2:45
PM The
efficacy of using inventory data to develop optimal diameter increment models,
Don Bragg, Southern Research
Station, Monticello, AR
2:45 PM - 3:15
PM Using
specific volume increment for quantifying growth response in trees -
theoretical and practical considerations, Eddie Bevilacqua, SUNY ESF, Syracuse, NY
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM BREAK: Michigan
Ballroom A & B
3:30 PM - 4:00
PM Space
and time considerations in stand dynamics modeling, Rolfe Leary, Consultant,
St. Paul, MN
4:00 PM - 4:30
PM Using
auxiliary information to estimate stand tables, Mike Clutter,
University of Georgia, Athens, GA and Ed
Green, Rutgers University, New Brunswick , NJ
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Developing Forest 5 and the
next generation of regional forest growth simulation models, Christopher Schwalm and Alan Ek, University of Minnesota, St.
Paul, MN
5:15 PM - 6:15
PM RECEPTION
WITH A VIEW, Trillium Lounge atop the
Grand Traverse Resort Tower
Thursday, October 18, 2001
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST: Michigan Ballroom A & B
* * * * * SESSION 3: Michigan Ballroom A & B * * * * *
MODERATOR:
Gregory Reams, Southern Research
Station, Asheville, NC
8:00 AM - 8:45
AM Building
an FIA Constituency, Panel Members: Gretchen
Moisen, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ogden, UT, Joey Gallion, Indiana
Department of Natural Resources,
Brownstown, IN, and Michael
Goergen, Society of American Foresters, Bethesda, MD
8:45 AM - 9:15 AM Ontario’s Forest Inventory, Hugh Devon, Ontario Ministry of Natural
Resources, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
9:15 AM - 9:45
AM Opportunities
to develop a 30-meter spatial database for the USA, Ray Czaplewski, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO
9:45 AM -
10:15 AM Statistically valid methods for using FIA plots to guide spectral class
rejection in producing stratification maps, Mike Hoppus, Northeastern Research Station, Newtown Square, PA
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM BREAK: Michigan Ballroom A & B
10:30AM -
11:00 AM Using a TM image
classified with the k-NN technique to stratify FIA plots, Ron McRoberts, North Central Research
Station, St. Paul, MN
11:00 AM -
11:30 AM Effects of registration errors between remotely sensed and ground data
in forest surveys, Paul Patterson and Michael Williams, Rocky Mountain
Research Station, Fort Collins, CO
11:30 AM - 12
Noon Evaluating
Landsat-based stratification for timber and
non-timber attributes on California’s North Coast, Antti
Kaartinen, Jeremy Fried and Paul Dunham, Pacific Northwest Research
Station , Portland, OR
12 Noon - 1:00 PM LUNCHEON:
Michigan Ballroom C & D
* * * * * SESSION 4: Michigan Ballroom A & B * * * * *
MODERATOR: David Hyink, Weyerhaeuser Company,
Federal Way, WA
1:15 PM - 1:45
PM Use
of FIA information in forest habitat modeling: a process for linking multiple
ecological scales, Thomas
Edwards, USGS Biological Resources Division, Logan, UT, Gretchen Moisen and Tracey Frescino, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Ogden, UT, and Josh Lawler, Utah State University,
Logan, UT
1:45 PM - 2:15
PM Fragmentation
statistics for FIA, Rachel Riemann,
Northeastern Research Station, Troy, NY
2:15 PM - 2:45
PM The
availability and usage of free software tools for evaluating landscape
heterogeneity, Andrew Lister,
Northeastern Research Station, Newtown Square, PA
2:45 PM - 3:30 PM BREAK
& POSTER SESSION: Michigan
Ballroom A & B
Puerto Rico’s forest inventory: adapting the USDA Forest
Service’s FIA program to a Caribbean island,
Tom Brandeis, International
Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Internet delivery of spatial data to professionals and the public, Tom Burk, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
Down deadwood estimated from a 1/16th subsample of Maine's FIA plots, David Chojnacky, USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC
A comparison of stratification effectiveness between then national land
cover dataset and photo-interpretation in western Oregon, Paul Dunham, Dale Weyermann
and David Azuma, Pacific Northwest
Research Station, Portland, OR
Using FIA – generated maps in National Forest applications in Utah, Tracy Frescino and Gretchen Moisen, Rocky Mountain
Research Station, Ogden, UT
Inventory and assessment of mossy forest of Mt. Amuyao for biodiversity
resources conservation and management, Precila Gonzales-Salcedo and Feliciano Calora, Benguet
State University, La Trinidad, Benguet,
Philippines
Synergistic use of FIA plot data and Landsat 7 ETM+ images for large
area forest mapping, Chengquan Huang, EROS Data
Center, Sioux Falls, SD and Andrew
Lister, Northeastern Research Station, Newtown Square, PA
Using FIA data to assess current and potential future tree species
importance values in the Eastern United States, Louis Iverson and Anantha
Prasad, Northeastern Research Station, Delaware, OH
Can US forest inventory data inform ecological modeling? Jennifer Jenkins, Northeastern Research Station, South Burlington,
VT
Report of the 1999 and 2000 annual inventories of Maine's forests, Kenneth Laustsen, Maine Forest Service, Augusta, ME
A first look at measurement error on FIA plots using blind checks in
the PNW, Susanna Melson, Pacific Northwest
Research Station, Portland, OR
Collecting and analyzing panoramic terrestrial photography
to characterize forest condition and change, Kenneth Winterberger, Pacific Northwest Research Station,
Anchorage, AK
Using height structure index to assess jack pine yield and
storability in Ontario, Voyteck Zakrzewski,
Ontario Forest Research Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Mapping the results of 50-year resource projections on US
timberlands (Preliminary results of the 2000 RPA Timber assessment), Xiaoping Zhou and John Mills, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR
* * * * * SESSION 4 CONTINUATION: Michigan Ballroom A & B * * * * *
MODERATOR: David Hyink, Weyerhaeuser Company,
Federal Way, WA
3:30 PM - 4:00
PM Progress
on adapting KNN methods for forest mapping and estimation using FIA data, Alan Ek and Reija Haapanen, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN
4:00 PM - 4:30
PM FIA
inventory of non-forest land: Implications for estimates of carbon cycling,
Jennifer Jenkins, Northeastern
Research Station, South Burlington, VT and Rachel Riemann, Northeastern Research
Station, Troy, NY
4:30 PM - 5:00
PM Estimating
the southern United States forest ecosystem biomass and carbon pool, Clark Baldwin, Southern Research
Station, Asheville, NC
5:00 PM -
5:30 PM POSTER SESSION CONTINUATION Michigan
Ballroom A & B
Friday, October 19, 2001
7:00 AM - 8:00
AM CONTINENTAL
BREAKFAST: Michigan Ballroom A & B
* * * * * SESSION 5: Michigan Ballroom A & B * * * * *
MODERATOR: Rickard Hokans, USDA Forest Service,
Milwaukee, WI
8:15
AM - 8:45 AM Field application potential of palmtop/handheld devices, Tom Burk, University of Minnesota, St.
Paul, MN
8:45 AM - 9:15
AM Various
Aspects of Sustainability Analysis in Georgia - from FIA and SAFIS Data to
Carbon Budget and Landscape Simulations, Chris Cieszewski, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
9:15 AM - 9:45
AM A
spreadsheet-based SDI management guide for slash pine, Paul Doruska, University of Arkansas, Monticello, AR
9:45 AM -
10:15 AM Factors that affect site index determination, Mahadev
Sharma, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
10:15 AM - 10:30 AM BREAK:
Michigan Ballroom A & B
10:30 AM -
11:00 AM Forest habitat type classification contributes to the analysis of
forest inventory, John Kotar,
University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
11:00 AM -
11:30 AM Annual forest inventory estimates based on the moving average, Francis Roesch, James Steinman and Michael
Thompson, Southern Research Station, Asheville, NC
11:30 AM - 12
Noon A
comparison of several techniques for imputing tree level data, southern FIA,
David Gartner, Southern Research
Station, Charleston, SC and Gregory
Reams, Southern Research Station, Asheville, NC
12 Noon - 1:00 PM LUNCHEON:
Michigan Ballroom C & D
* * * * * SESSION 6: Michigan Ballroom A & B * * * * *
MODERATOR: William Brad Smith, USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC
1:00 PM - 1:30
PM Nonparametric
model-assisted estimation with applications in the Interior West, Jean Opsomer, Iowa State University,
Ames, IA, Gretchen Moisen, Rocky
Mountain Research Station, Ogden, UT
and Jay Breidt, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
1:30 PM - 2:00
PM Comparison
of Minnesota land cover/use area estimates using FIA and NRI data, Veronica Lessard, Natural Resources
Conservation Service, St. Paul, MN, Mark
Hansen and Mark Nelson, North
Central Research Station, St. Paul, MN
2:00 PM - 2:30
PM On-the-fly
calculation of stratum weights for inventory estimation, Ron McRoberts, North Central Research
Station, St. Paul, MN
2:30 PM - 3:00
PM Volume and biomass estimation in FIA,
national consistency vs regional accuracy, Mark
Hansen, North Central Research Station, St. Paul, MN
3:00 PM - 3:15
PM Midwest Mensurationists’ business
meeting
3:15 – Adjourn
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