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About NE-FIA

• Legislative Authority
• Staff Contacts
• Traveler's Guide

Latest News (includes newsletter archives)

• Program Manager's Newsletter
• Status of State Inventories
• Job Openings
• Draft Strategic Plan
• Users' Group Meetings

Methodology (includes definitions)

• Inventory Design Phase I
• Inventory Design Phase II

  Sample Design
  • Sampling Frame
  • Sample Location Design
  • Expansion Factors
  • Data Reliability and Sampling Error
  • Quality Assurance and Quality Control
  Current QA/QC Results

  Data Collected
  • Measurement Variables
  • Variables Collected
  

  Classification Procedures
  • Forest-Type
  • Stand-Size
  

  Volume Estimation Procedures
  • Cubic-Foot
  • Sawtimber
  

  Inventory Change
  • Components of Change

• Inventory Design Phase III

Data Collection

Field Progress by State


• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New York
• Ohio
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• Vermont
• West Virginia
• NE Area
  

  Inventory Field Guides
  

• 2001 (Version 1.5)
  
• 2002 (Version 1.6)
• 2003 (Version 1.7)
  

  Conducting the Inventory
  

• Field Equipment
• Field Crew
• GPS Data Collection

Statewide Results

• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• New Hampshire
• New Jersey
• New York
• Ohio
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• Vermont
• West Virginia

GIS / Spatial Statistics

Key Concepts


• Geostatistics
• Landscape Ecology
• Photo Interpreted maps
• Remote Sensing
• Species Importance maps
  

  Access to Data
  

• FIA Map Maker
• FIA Spaital Data Center
• Mill Locations
  

  Geostatistics Workshop
  

• Introduction
• Flow Chart of the Process
• Outline of Steps
• Definitions and Descriptions
• Discussion
• Step-by-Step
• Examples & Downloads
• Videos
• Arc Scripts

Publications & Products

• Analytical Reports
• Biomass Reports
• Ownership Reports
• Statistical Reports
• Timber Removals Reports
• Wildlife Habitat Reports
• Other FIA Reports

Special Studies

• Forest Health Monitoring
• National Woodland Owner Survey
• Forest Resource Use
• Pennsylvania Regeneration Study
• Landscape Dynamics
• Delaware River Basin Study
  

  National Forest Reporting
  

• White Mountain
• Finger Lakes (unavailable)
• Wayne
• Allegheny (unavailable)
• Green Mountain
• Monongahela

Other Links