Applications of North American Forest Dynamics technology within the Forest Inventory and Analysis program
Gretchen
Moisen, USFS - FIA Interior West, gmoisen@fs.fed.us
(Presenting)
Sean
Healey, USFS - FIA Interior West, sphealey@fs.fed.us
Mark
Nelson, USFS - FIA Northern, mdnelson@fs.fed.us
Randy
Morin, USFS - FIA Northern, rsmorin@fs.fed.us
John
Shaw, USFS - FIA Interior West, jdshaw@fs.fed.us
Will
McWilliams, USFS - FIA Northern, wmcwilliams@fs.fed.us
Rachel
Riemann, USFS - FIA Northern, rriemann@fs.fed.us
Brett
Butler, USFS - FIA Northern, bbutler@fs.fed.us
Jock
Blackard, USFS - FIA Interior West, jablackard@fs.fed.us
Sam
Goward, University of Maryland, sgoward@geog.umd.edu
Warren
Cohen, USFS - PNW, warren.cohen@oregonstate.edu
Jeff
Masek, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, jeffrey.g.masek@nasa.gov
The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program of the USDA Forest Service collects data annually on the status and trends in forested ecosystems nationwide. These inventory data have traditionally been used to support estimates of forest population totals over large geographic areas, and recent emphasis has been placed on producing broad-scale maps of numerous forest characteristics to make these extensive forest resource data more accessible and useful to a larger and more diverse audience. While spatial depictions of current forest attributes is an improvement in reporting on the status of the nation’s forests, an important component of monitoring is gaining a clear understanding of what has happened in the past. Reconstructing historical trends in forest disturbance using forest inventory data alone is hampered by inconsistent sampling schemes and plot designs, varying definitions, gaps in plot distributions, as well as irregular and sometimes non-existent temporal sampling. Additional information is needed to adequately depict the forest disturbance and recovery history over the last thirty years. The North American Forest Dynamics project, a joint venture between the North American Carbon Program and FIA, is a Landsat-based change project characterizing historic forest disturbance and recovery. Work is underway to involve the larger FIA community and develop standard tools for analyzing both historical and future trend that will have national application. Here, we describe a variety of local, state, and regional analyses currently being conducted in diverse ecosystems across the country.
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