Occlusion Probability in Operational Forest Inventory Field Sampling with ForeStereo

Fixed Point Probability Field for Occlusion Handling

In this paper, we show that in a multi-camera context, we can effectively handle occlusions at each time frame independently, even when the only available data comes from the binary output of a fairly primitive motion detector. We start from occupancy probability estimates in a top view and rely on a generative model to yield probability images to be compared with the actual input images. We th...

Simulating Sampling Efficiency in Airborne Laser Scanning Based Forest Inventory

A simple simulator was developed to test whether airborne laser scanning can be used as a strip sampling tool for forest inventory purposes. The simulator is based on the existing two stages, grid based laser inventory procedure. A population of trees was created using an existing forest stand structure generator. Each tree was represented by means of its 3D-crown model derived from airborne la...

2 The Forest Inventory and Analysis Sampling Frame

For purposes of sampling and estimation, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) subdivides the total land area of the United States into mutually exclusive populations and subpopulations. Populations are usually defined by county boundaries or by public ownerships that may or may not cross county boundaries (e.g., national forests). In cases where the sample size for individual counties is insuffi...

Forest inventory

Stratified sampling based on photo- interpreted forest types reduces the cost of strategic forest inventory

This study assesses the effectiveness of stratification, based on photo-interpreted forest types, for strategic inventory. It uses results (from stratified sampling) for Total Merchantable Volume (TMV) in 18 Inventory Areas in Tasmanian State forest. The variance of the TMV as determined from stratified sampling is compared with the estimated variance of a simple random sample using the same nu...