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View article: Hurricanes Pose Substantial Risk to New England Forest Carbon Stocks
Hurricanes Pose Substantial Risk to New England Forest Carbon Stocks Open
Nature-based climate solutions are championed as a primary tool to mitigate climate change, especially in forested regions capable of storing and sequestering vast amounts of carbon. New England is one of the most heavily forested regions …
View article: Comparing harmonic regression and GLAD Phenology metrics for estimation of forest community types and aboveground live biomass within forest inventory and analysis plots
Comparing harmonic regression and GLAD Phenology metrics for estimation of forest community types and aboveground live biomass within forest inventory and analysis plots Open
The Landsat multispectral time series is a valuable source of moderate spatial resolution data to support forest mapping and monitoring tasks. Using United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysi…
View article: Maps of Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands forest functional groups, biomass, height, and species counts (2001-2008) and satellite image composites (1980-2000)
Maps of Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands forest functional groups, biomass, height, and species counts (2001-2008) and satellite image composites (1980-2000) Open
This data publication contains 49 ERDAS IMAGINE (IMG) raster images representing modeled distributions using Cubist, PGNN or both, of native, endemic and introduced tree species counts, relative basal areas of functional groups, species ba…
View article: Forest Atlas of the United States
Forest Atlas of the United States Open
The United States of America has a remarkable forest resource—more than 765 million acres of planted and natural forest land and an additional 58 million acres of woodlands. These lands provide clean water, clean air, wildlife and fish hab…
View article: Review and Synthesis of Estimation Strategies to Meet Small Area Needs in Forest Inventory
Review and Synthesis of Estimation Strategies to Meet Small Area Needs in Forest Inventory Open
Small area estimation is a growing area of research for making inferences over geographic, demographic, or temporal domains smaller than those in which a particular survey data set was originally intended to be used. We aimed to review a b…
View article: Examining k-Nearest Neighbor Small Area Estimation Across Scales Using National Forest Inventory Data
Examining k-Nearest Neighbor Small Area Estimation Across Scales Using National Forest Inventory Data Open
National forest inventories (NFI), such as the one conducted by the United States Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program, provide valuable information regarding the status of forests at regional to national scales. Howe…
View article: Nonresponse bias in change estimation: a national forest inventory example
Nonresponse bias in change estimation: a national forest inventory example Open
Nonresponse in national forest inventories primarily occurs in forested areas due to accessibility issues or where hazardous conditions exist. As with all surveys, nonresponse has the potential to impart empirical bias into sample-based es…
View article: Constrained Functional Regression of National Forest Inventory Data Over Time Using Remote Sensing Observations
Constrained Functional Regression of National Forest Inventory Data Over Time Using Remote Sensing Observations Open
The USDA Forest Service uses satellite imagery, along with a sample of national forest inventory field plots, to monitor and predict changes in forest conditions over time throughout the United States. We specifically focus on a 230,400 ha…
View article: Use of Remote Sensing Data to Improve the Efficiency of National Forest Inventories: A Case Study from the United States National Forest Inventory
Use of Remote Sensing Data to Improve the Efficiency of National Forest Inventories: A Case Study from the United States National Forest Inventory Open
Globally, forests are a crucial natural resource, and their sound management is critical for human and ecosystem health and well-being. Efforts to manage forests depend upon reliable data on the status of and trends in forest resources. Wh…
View article: Constrained Functional Regression of National Forest Inventory Data over Time Using Remote Sensing Observations
Constrained Functional Regression of National Forest Inventory Data over Time Using Remote Sensing Observations Open
The USDA Forest Service uses satellite imagery, along with a sample of national forest inventory field plots, to monitor and predict changes in forest conditions over time throughout the United States. We specifically focus on a 230, 400 h…
View article: Tree species distribution in the United States Part 1
Tree species distribution in the United States Part 1 Open
The distribution and local abundance of tree species constitute basic information about our forest ecosystems that is relevant to understanding their ecology, diversity, and relationship to people. The US Forest Service conducts a forest i…
View article: Tree species distribution in the United States Part 1
Tree species distribution in the United States Part 1 Open
The distribution and local abundance of tree species constitute basic information about our forest ecosystems that is relevant to understanding their ecology, diversity, and relationship to people. The US Forest Service conducts a forest i…
View article: Constrained Functional Regression of National Forest Inventory Data over Time Using Remote Sensing Observations
Constrained Functional Regression of National Forest Inventory Data over Time Using Remote Sensing Observations Open
The dataset in this Dataverse can be used to reproduce the outputs of Appendix A.1.3 in the supplementary materials and of Section 4.1 of the article titled "Constrained Functional Regression of National Forest Inventory Data over Time Usi…
View article: Tropical Deforestation and Recolonization by Exotic and Native Trees: Spatial Patterns of Tropical Forest Biomass, Functional Groups, and Species Counts and Links to Stand Age, Geoclimate, and Sustainability Goals
Tropical Deforestation and Recolonization by Exotic and Native Trees: Spatial Patterns of Tropical Forest Biomass, Functional Groups, and Species Counts and Links to Stand Age, Geoclimate, and Sustainability Goals Open
We mapped native, endemic, and introduced (i.e., exotic) tree species counts, relative basal areas of functional groups, species basal areas, and forest biomass from forest inventory data, satellite imagery, and environmental data for Puer…
View article: Tree species distribution in the United States Part 1
Tree species distribution in the United States Part 1 Open
The distribution and local abundance of tree species constitute basic information about our forest ecosystems that is relevant to understanding their ecology, diversity, and relationship to people. The US Forest Service conducts a forest i…
View article: Tree species distribution in the United States Part 1
Tree species distribution in the United States Part 1 Open
The distribution and local abundance of tree species constitute basic information about our forest ecosystems that is relevant to understanding their ecology, diversity, and relationship to people. The US Forest Service conducts a forest i…
View article: Making national forest inventory data relevant for local forest management
Making national forest inventory data relevant for local forest management Open
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2018. Major: Natural Resources Science and Management. Advisor: Joseph Knight. 1 computer file (PDF); vi, 131 pages.
View article: Tree species distribution in the United States Part 1
Tree species distribution in the United States Part 1 Open
The distribution and local abundance of tree species constitute basic information about our forest ecosystems that is relevant to understanding their ecology, diversity, and relationship to people. The US Forest Service conducts a forest i…
View article: Regional Economic Impacts of Biochemical and Pyrolysis Biofuel Production in the Southeastern US: A Systems Modeling Approach
Regional Economic Impacts of Biochemical and Pyrolysis Biofuel Production in the Southeastern US: A Systems Modeling Approach Open
This research developed a regional economic model to estimate the ex-ante impacts of biofuel production on the economy of the southeastern United States. The analysis focuses on biofuels produced using biochemical and pyrolysis technologie…
View article: Random forests and stochastic gradient boosting for predicting tree canopy cover: comparing tuning processes and model performance
Random forests and stochastic gradient boosting for predicting tree canopy cover: comparing tuning processes and model performance Open
As part of the development of the 2011 National Land Cover Database (NLCD) tree canopy cover layer, a pilot project was launched to test the use of high-resolution photography coupled with extensive ancillary data to map the distribution o…
View article: The U.S. forest carbon accounting framework: stocks and stock change, 1990-2016
The U.S. forest carbon accounting framework: stocks and stock change, 1990-2016 Open
As a signatory to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the United States annually prepares an inventory of carbon that has been emitted and sequestered among sectors (e.g., energy, agriculture, and forests). For many …
View article: Skilled Labor Preference, Cellulosic Biofuel Facility Location, and Economic Impacts in the Southeastern US
Skilled Labor Preference, Cellulosic Biofuel Facility Location, and Economic Impacts in the Southeastern US Open
This research applies recent developments in the analysis of firm location determinants, applying local geographic concentration indices to determine and the extent to which clustering influences the location decisions of cellulosic biofue…