Forest Inventory and Monitoring Environmetrics

Welcome

Research Work Unit 4804's mission is to develop, validate, and transfer scientifically credible methods of mathematical statistics for the Forest Inventory and Analysis programs and related efforts to achieve more timely and useful inventory and monitoring of forest lands..

Special Events:

Unifying Knowledge for Sustainability in the Western Hemisphere 2004 (Monday 9/20/2004 - Friday 9/24/2004)

• Senior policy makers and scientists from a wide range of disciplines will address the critical needs for unified information and knowledge and how to obtain it to support monitoring for ecosystem sustainability to assure a foundation for sustainable economic development. Participants will cover technological advances and knowledge requirements across disciplines to make the monitoring of ecosystem sustainability both effective and efficient. The symposium emphasizes working across disciplinary boundaries. Participants will be challenged to think outside the box to advance monitoring science through cross disciplinary presentations and discussion. As organizations and governmental institutions conduct monitoring and inventory activities it has become clear that much value can be lost when these activities fail to contain common information or common protocols. So, interoperability will be a common thread running through the symposium. Results of innovative monitoring approaches and applications of technology will be presented. The symposium focuses on interests and activities in the Western Hemisphere.