Description
Sampling Techniques for Forest Inventories
Chapman & Hall/CRC Applied Environmental Statistics Series
Author: Mandallaz Daniel
Language: EnglishSubjects for Sampling Techniques for Forest Inventories:
Keywords
Simple Random Sampling; simple; Inclusion Probabilities; random; Forest Inventory; inclusion; Inclusion Probabilities Πi; probability; Horvitz Thompson Estimator; scheme; Intra-cluster Correlation; variable; Super-population Model; horvitzthompson; Model Dependent Approach; estimator; Cluster Random Sampling; probabilities; Ht Estimator; model; Optimal Sampling Schemes; ANOVA Table; Multiple Linear Regression; Angle Count; Ok; Short Range Correlation; Ith Tree; Kriging Estimate; Auxiliary Information; Empirical Variogram; Transect Length; Stem Density; Punctual Kriging; Small Area Estimations; Spherical Variogram
Publication date: 09-2019
· 15.6x23.4 cm · Paperback
Publication date: 11-2007
320 p. · 15.6x23.4 cm · Hardback
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Sound forest management planning requires cost-efficient approaches to optimally utilize given resources. Emphasizing the mathematical and statistical features of forest sampling to assess classical dendrometrical quantities, Sampling Techniques for Forest Inventories presents the statistical concepts and tools needed to conduct a modern forest inventory.
The book first examines design-based survey sampling and inference for finite populations, covering inclusion probabilities and the Horvitz?Thompson estimator, followed by more advanced topics, including three-stage element sampling and the model-assisted estimation procedure. The author then develops the infinite population model/Monte Carlo approach for both simple and complex sampling schemes. He also uses a case study to reveal a variety of estimation procedures, relies on anticipated variance to tackle optimal design for forest inventories, and validates the resulting optimal schemes with data from the Swiss National Forest Inventory. The last chapters outline facts pertaining to the estimation of growth and introduce transect sampling based on the stereological approach.
Containing many recent developments available for the first time in book form, this concise and up-to-date work provides the necessary theoretical and practical foundation to analyze and design forest inventories.