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BRANN, THOMAS B.; LOUISE O. HOUSE IV; H. GYDE LUND Editors ListingsIf you cannot find what you want on this page, then please use our search feature to search all our listings. Click on Title to view full description
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BRANN, THOMAS B.; LOUISE O. HOUSE IV; H. GYDE LUND editors In-place resource inventories : principles & practices. Proceedings of a national workshop. August 9-14, 1981 University of Maine, Orono, Maine.
Bethesda, MD Society of American Foresters 1982 0939970171 / 9780939970179 Soft Cover
1099 pages, maps, diagrams, tables, wrappers, 8-1/2 by 11 inches, very good. Sponsored by: American Society of Photogrammetry, Renewable Natural Resources Foundation, Society of American Foresters, Society for Range Management, The Wildlife Society. In cooperation with: Forest Industries of Maine, University of Maine, USDA Forest Service, USDA Soil Conservation Service, USDI Bureau of Land Management, USDI Fish and Wildlife Service, USDI Geological Survey. The objective of this workshop and the proceedings was to provide the beginning and practicing inventory specialist alternative methods of producing reliable inventories and maps of the resources. To accomplish this goal, the workshop consisted of two concurrent courses each divided into six panels. The panels in concurrent course I-Principles of Resource Inventories-consisted of: In-Place Information Needs for Activity Planning, Principles of Planning for the In-Place Inventory, Principles of Classification, Principles of Mapping and Remote Sensing, Principles of Sampling, and Principles of Analysis and Information Manage- ment Systems. Concurrent course II-Practices of In-Place Resource Inventories-consisted of: In-Place Information Needs for Land-Use Planning, Practices for Inventory Standardization, Existing Classification Techniques, Existing Mapping and Remote Sensing, Existing Inventory and Sampling Designs, and Existing Analytical and Information Management Systems. Also, included are the abstracts of 12 poster session papers covering a variety of subjects, but emphasizing remote sensing. A total of 191 papers are in these proceeding representing over 370 participants from I I countries and 46 states. Papers include: Spatially Constrained Marginal Cost/Marginal Revenue Model for Timberland Located In Western Washington State (Fred Hadley), Joint count statistics: an alternative to quadrant and distance sampling (Arvanitis, L.G. and R. Daley); Potentials and limitations of geo-based computer information systems - the selection of a system (Carlton M Newton); The Use of Superpopulation-Prediction Methods in Survey Analysis, with applications to the British National Census of Woodlands and Trees (Keith Rennolls); Mapping vegetation in highly urbanized areas (R.A. Rowntree); An evaluation of the National Wetland Inventory in Massachusetts (Swartwout, D.J., W.P. MacConnell and J.T. Finn); Resource inventory and geographic information system design to facilitate the Adirondack Park Agency's planning capabilities (Curran, R.P.); Selection of in-place inventory systems to meet operational and strategic planning needs. (William R. Bentley).
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