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Title: Pacific northwest region vegetation and inventory monitoring system. Forest Service research paper

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:492358

A grid sampling strategy was adopted for broad-scale inventory and monitoring of forest and range vegetation on National Forest System lands in the Pacific Northwest Region, USDA Forest Service. This paper documents the technical details of the adopted design and discusses alternative sampling designs that were considered. The design is flexible and can be used with many types of maps. The theory of point and change estimation is described, as well as estimates of variation that assess the statistical precision of estimates.

Research Organization:
Forest Service, Portland, OR (United States). Pacific Northwest Research Station
OSTI ID:
492358
Report Number(s):
PB-97-163265/XAB; FSRP-PNW-493; TRN: 71601156
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Dec 1996
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English