Forest Inventory and Planning Forester Bureau of Indian Affairs Coulee Dam, Washington, United States
Tribes in the Northwest have experienced unprecedented severe wildfire over that last 10 years. This presentation provides a case study on methods of updating forest inventories post fire using a combination of geospatial tools, the Forest Projection System (FPS) and high-resolution imagery.
Learning Objectives:
Describe some methods available for updating and maintaining a forest inventory post fire.
List the tools available to update and maintain a forest inventory and understand how they can be used to update mapping, recalculate the tree list in the inventory, and run depletion reports illustrate fire losses in the forest inventory.
Describe the method of updating stand volume estimates on combined stands using mapping tools and the FPS software package.
