[Forest-list] 2013-02-24 NRMI: This Issue: Reliability of Forest Inventories and Remote Sensing (Part 2 of 3) and Some Other Good Things

[H. Gyde Lund]

*2013-02-24**NRMI: NATURAL RESOURCE MONITORING ITEMS OF INTEREST*

This Issue:*/Reliability of Forest Inventories and Remote Sensing (Part 
2 of 3)/***and Some Other Good Things

*RELIABILITY OF FOREST INVENTORIES AND REMOTE SENSING. (Part 2 of 3) -- 
*Recently I was doing some searching for publications on the reliability 
of forest inventories and remote sensing. Here are some of the sites 
that I found. If you know of others, please send me the information and 
I will post in the next NRMI. Thanks, Gyde (gyde at comcast.net).

Goodenough, D.G. et al. 1997. *Automated forest inventory update with 
SEIDAM* 
<http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=615219&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D615219>. 
Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 1997. IGARSS '97. Remote Sensing - A 
Scientific Vision for Sustainable Development., 1997 IEEE International. 
Abstract.

Gregg, Tommy F.; Hummel, Susan Stevens. N.d. *Assessing Uncertainty in 
FVS Projections Using a Bootstrap Resampling Method* 
<http://www.growthmodel.org/papers/Gregg012803.ppt>. 29 slides.

Gross, Claus-Peter; Adler, Petra.1996? *Reliability of Area Mapping by 
Delineation in Aerial Photographs.* 
<http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs_rm/rm_gtr277/rm_gtr277_267_271.pdf>**5 p.

Gupta, Anshu; Singh, Jagdish. 2010. *An Investigation of Reliability on 
Remote Sensing and GIS Data as an Aid to Urban Development Plan: A Case 
Study on Bhopal.* <http://itpi.org.in/pdfs/oct1_10.pdf>**Institute of 
Town Planners, India Journal 7(4): 90-100.

Helms, J. R. ;Shain, W. A. 1981. *Problems Related to the Use of Remote 
Sensing for Inventory and Mapping of Lower Coastal Plain Forests.* 
<http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lars_symp/464>LARS Symposia. Paper 464. 5 p.

Hill, Timothy B. 1993. *Taking the " " out of "ground truth" - objective 
accuracy assessment.* 
<http://www.grsgis.com/downloads/finish/14/33.html>**13 p.

Hofmann, Peter et al. 2011.*Mapping Green Spaces in Bishkek---How 
Reliable can Spatial Analysis Be?* 
<http://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/3/6/1088/pdf>Remote Sens 3: 1088-1103.

Kelle, Olavi et al. 2011.*Remote sensing and probabilistic sampling 
based forest inventory method* 
<http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2011/0110562.htm>*. *l 
<http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2011/0110562.html>and 
http://www.google.com/patents/US7639842

Kleinn, C. 2002. *New technologies and methodologies for national forest 
inventories* <http://www.ibcperu.org/doc/isis/5422.pdf>. 10 p.

Köhl, Michael et al. 2011. *Implications of sampling design and sample 
size for national carbon accounting systems* 
<http://www.cbmjournal.com/content/6/1/10/>. Carbon Balance and 
Management, 6:10.

Lackmann, Stefen. 2011. *Lesson 8 - Good Practice in Designing a Forest 
Inventory.* 
<http://www.rainforestcoalition.org/TinyMceFiles/CD%20REDD%20II,%20May%202011/11%20Forest%20Inventory_SteffenLackmann.pdf>75 
p.

Lessard, Veronica C. 2001. *Updating Indiana Annual Forest Inventory and 
Analysis Plot Data Using Eastern Broadleaf Forest Diameter Growth 
Models.* 
<http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/gtr/gtr_srs047/gtr_srs047-lessard.pdf>In: 
Reams, Gregory A.; McRoberts, Ronald E.; Van Deusen, Paul C., eds. 2001. 
Proceedings of the second annual Forest Inventory and Analysis 
symposium; 2000 October 17-18; Salt Lake City, UT. Gen. Tech. Rep. 
SRS-47. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 
Southern Research Station. pp. 66-69.

Lund, H. Gyde; Thomas, Charles E. tech. coords. 1995.***A primer on 
evaluation and use of natural resource information for corporate data 
bases*. 
<http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/analytics/publications/outofprint/wo_62.pdf>Gen. Tech. 
Report WO-62. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest 
Service. 168 p.

Magnussen, S. et al. 2010. *Reliability of LiDAR derived predictors of 
forest inventory attributes: A case study with Norway spruce.* 
<http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/elsevier/reliability-of-lidar-derived-predictors-of-forest-inventory-attributes-zhYrIZAEC5>**Remote 
Sensing of Environment 114(4): 700--712.

Mäkinen, Antti M. et al. 2010. *Identifying the Presence of Assessment 
Errors in Forest Inventory Data by Data Mining.* 
<ct.%20http:/www.ingentaconnect.com/content/saf/fs/2010/00000056/00000003/art00007>**Forest 
Science 56(3): 301-312. Abstract

*Matanuska-Susitna Borough Forest Inventory* 
<http://www.matsugov.us/communitydevelopment/asset-management-plans/forest-management-plan>(2009)

*SOME OTHER PUBLICATIONS/URLS OF INTEREST*

Scheffers, B.R., et al. 2012. *What we know and don't know about Earth's 
missing biodiversity. 
<http://brettscheffers.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/scheffers_et_al_2012_what-we-know-and-dont-know-about-earths-missing-biodiversity.pdf>* 
Trends Ecol. Evol. 27(9):501-510.

Sciencenetwork. 2013. *Monitoring tool to protect forests 
<http://sciencealert.com.au/news/20132701-23999.html>*

Sewell, D., et al. 2012. *When is a species declining? Optimizing survey 
effort to detect population changes in reptiles. 
<http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0043387>* 
PLoS ONE 7(8):e43387.

Seymour, C.L., et al. 2010.*Twenty years of rest returns grazing 
potential, but not palatable plant diversity, to Karoo rangeland, South 
Africa 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01833.x/pdf>*. 
Journal of Applied Ecology 47 (4): 859-867.

Simonson, W.D., et al. 2012. *Use of an airborne lidar system to model 
plant species composition and diversity of Mediterranean oak forests. 
<http://lib.bioinfo.pl/paper:22731687>* Conserv. Biol. 26(5):840-850. 
Abstract.

Vallejo, V.R., et al. 2012. *Perspectives in dryland restoration: 
approaches for climate change adaptation. 
<http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11056-012-9325-9?LI=true> 
*New Forest. 43(5-6):561-579. Abstract.

Verburg, P.H., et al. 2010. *Challenges in using land use and land cover 
data for global change studies. 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2486.2010.02307.x/abstract>* 
Global Change Biology 17 (2): 974-989.

Villard, M.A.; Haché, S. 2012. *Conifer plantations consistently act as 
barriers to movement in a deciduous forest songbird: a translocation 
experiment 
<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0006320712002765>*. 
Biol. Conserv. 155:33-37. Abstract.

Vojta, J.; Drhovská, L. 2012. *Are abandoned wooded pastures suitable 
refugia for forest species? 
<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2012.01399.x/abstract>* 
J. Veg. Sci. 23(5):880-891 Listing.

Vuohelainen, A.J., et a.. 2012. *The effectiveness of contrasting 
protected areas in preventing deforestation in Madre de Dios, Peru 
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22814545>*. Environ. Manage. 
50(4):645-663. Abstract.

Washington-Allen, R.A., et al. 2008. *Quantification of the ecological 
resilience of drylands using digital remote sensing. 
<http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss1/art33/ES-2008-2489.pdf> 
*Ecology and Society 13 (1), art. no. 33

Watts, Jonathan. 2013. *Amazon showing signs of degradation due to 
climate change, NASA warns 
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/jan/18/amazon-rainforest-climate-change-nasa>*. 
The Guardian.

Watts, Jonathan. 2013. *Brazil plans Amazon tree census to assess 
deforestation 
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/27/amazon-tree-census>*. The 
Guardian.

*FEEDBACK ON CONVERSION FACTORS *-- List member and retired forester 
Jamie Benson provided this feedback on last week's NRMI.../In the late 
1970's early 1980's Canada went through the process of selecting units 
and calculating conversion factors for switching to metric (SI) unit. 
Two publications from the Canadian Forestry Service were very useful, 
but both are out of print and I cannot find them either at the Canadian 
government publications site or on line. These were: Selected metric 
(SI) units and conversion factors for Canadian forestry, by Murray Bowen 
(which is a fold out pamphlet; I have a copy), and Metric Units in 
Forestry, by G.M. Bonnor; I do not have a copy of this one. Both 
publications came out as a result of work by several Forestry Sector 
Working Groups of the Canadian Metric Commission, which was disbanded in 
about 1985 (their work was done). For the specific values requested, 
from the Selected values pamphlet, 1 m squared / hectare equals 4.356 00 
square feet per acre; the zeros are important, since the intent was for 
the conversion to work both ways and to cover significant rounding 
errors. For the other conversion requested: 1 square foot per acre 
equals 0.229 568 square metres per hectare. Note the spelling of 
'metre', which comes from the fact that we are using SI units, which 
recognizes that a metre is a measure of distance, while a meter is a 
measuring device (the distinction between which generated some amount of 
discussion during meetings of the metric forestry sectors in which I 
participated - I was an active member of 2 of the 5 Forestry Sector 
Working Groups). Other selected units are in the pamphlet, and which I 
could copy, but I am unsure about the copyright issues associated with 
just making a copy. There may be no copyright issues since all of the 
factors are available mathematically./

//*/On the question of the reliability of forest inventories/*/, our 
first estimates of reliability were based on the Standard Error of the 
Estimate for sampling error; of course the relevance of this measure 
diminished as time passed since the date of survey; introducing growth 
factors also introduces additional sampling errors, to say nothing of 
other factors that reduce reliability, such as land use changes between 
surveys. At a certain unacceptable level of risk, it only makes sense to 
create a new baseline by re-doing the survey. A continuous replenishment 
of inventory data (xx% per year) makes financial and practical sense, 
especially to maintain an acceptable level of error risk, and continuity 
in available expertise within an organization./Thank you for this 
information Jamie

*KEEPING UP-TO-DATE -- PRODUCTS, NEWSLETTERS, EMAIL LISTS, JOURNALS.*See 
also 
http://botany.si.edu/puhttps://www.createspace.com/3489254bs/bcn/links.cfm 
<http://botany.si.edu/puhttps:/www.createspace.com/3489254bs/bcn/links.cfm>, 
http://scholar.google.com/, and**Directory of Open Access Journals. 
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals. 
<http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals.%5C>

*INFOSYLVA *-- You can now find issue No. 03./2013 at 
http://www.fao.org/forestry/36186-09f003cb5c6deec08f04c3ddc7b72e388.pdf

*Latest Global Map of Irrigation Areas - *The Latest Global Map of 
Irrigation Areas (Ver. 4.0.1) is available as a free download. The map 
shows the amount of area equipped for irrigation around the turn of the 
20th century in percentage of the total area on a raster with a 
resolution of 5 minutes. The area actually irrigated was smaller, but is 
unknown for most countries. A special note has to be made for Australia 
and India where the map shows the total area actually irrigated. This is 
due to the fact that statistics collected in Australia and India refer 
to actually irrigated area as opposed to statistics with area equipped 
for irrigation which are collected in most other countries. An 
explanation of the different terminology to indicate areas under 
irrigation is given in the glossary. Full details at 
http://free-gis-data.blogspot.com/2012/04/latest-global-map-of-irrigation-areas.html. 
 From Shaan W. IFL List.

*Forests Born of Fire. *Video. Western US forests burned by 
high-intensity fire are important and rare wildlife habitat -- but 
widespread policies of salvage logging and logging intended to prevent 
the likelihood of fire on private and public lands harms this 
habitat.The video demonstrates the beauty and life found where burned 
forests are left to wild 
nature.http://www.wildnatureinstitute.org/1/post/2013/02/forests-born-of-fire.htmlFrom 
MarcFink, Appeal list.

*WORKING SMARTER - WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS, EVENTS, ETC*. -- See also: 
http://www.gfis.net, http://www.iufro.org/events/calendar/ and 
http://www.iufro.org/discover/noticeboard/.

27-28 March 2013. *Financial Analysis for Resource Managers.* Olympia, 
Washington, USA. For details see 
http://www.westernforestry.org/Events/conference/financial-analysis-for-resource-managers-2/ 
 From Richard Zabel, WFCA.

11-12 April 2013. *Inventory and Data Collection: From Tactical to 
Strategic *. Wilsonville, Oregon, USA. As inventory systems move away 
from intensive sampling to less intensive sampling, it becomes all the 
more important to maintain a reliable and quality inventory database. 
This session will offer a wealth of ideas and advice to keep your system 
on track. For more details see . 
http://www.westernforestry.org/Events/conference/inventory-and-data-collection-from-tactical-to-strategic/ 
 From Richard Zabel, WFCA.

10-14 February */2014/*.*Trees for Life: Accelerating the Impacts of 
Agroforestry,* World Congress on Agroforestry. Dehli, India. Over 1000 
selected participants drawn from the private sector, research and 
development will share the current state of knowledge and seek to 
accelerate the positive financial, environmental and social impacts of 
agroforestry. Offering a unique opportunity for the business and 
research communities to interact, the Congress will be built around a 
structure dealing with science and innovation; food and nutrition; 
environmental protection; enterprise; knowledge and policy environment, 
and climate change. It will produce a global roadmap for agroforestry in 
the context of world development and create a deliberate and tangible 
legacy in terms of recognition, partnership, investment and impact. 
Further information will soon be distributed on the details of the 
agenda and the method of registration. In the meantime, see 
www.wca2014.org <http://www.wca2014.org> for further details or email 
wca2014 at CGIAR.org <mailto:wca2014 at CGIAR.org> to register your 
interest.From Artur Gil, Applied GIS RS List.

*MOVING AHEAD -- OPPORTUNITIES*-- See also: Scholarships-Positions 
<http://scholarship-positions.com/>, Forestry, Arboriculture, 
Agriculture, Agronomy & Natural Resource Management Jobs at 
http://www.earthworks-jobs.com/forest.htm, Riley Guide to Agriculture, 
Forestry, & Farming Jobs http://www.rileyguide.com/agric.html, Finding 
Your Dream Job in Natural Resources http://www.cyber-sierra.com/nrjobs/, 
http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/index.html The Job Seekers Guide for 
International and Environmental Careers 
_http://timresch.net/ejobs/index.htm _and Scholarship Listing 
_http://www.scholarshiplisting.com/_.*
*

*NEXT ISSUE -- /Reliability of Forest Inventories and Remote Sensing 
(Part 3 of 3)./*

*Pay It Forward/-- Cheers, Gyde/*

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