Estimating forest conversion rates with annual forest inventory data
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The rate of land-use conversion from forest to nonforest or natural forest to forest plantation is of interest for forest certification purposes and also as part of the process of assessing forest sustainability. Conversion rates can be estimated from remeasured inventory plots in general, but the emphasis here is on annual inventory data. A new estimator is proposed based on analysis of plot-level variables that indicate when a change in forest condition occurs between inventory remeasurements. A weighted maximum likelihood estimator is derived that incorporates the binomial nature of the indicator variables, mapped plot conditions, and varying remeasurement periods. Example applications demonstrate the utility of the proposed methodology. This approach is broadly useful for estimating the annual rate of change from an initial condition to another condition from annual forest inventory data. Résumé : Il est important de connaı̂tre le taux de conversion de l’utilisation du territoire, de la forêt vers une utilisation non forestière ou de la forêt naturelle vers une plantation forestière, à des fins de certification forestière et dans le cadre du processus d’estimation de la durabilité de la forêt. En général, des taux de conversion peuvent être estimés à partir des mesures répétées de placettes d’inventaire, mais dans cet article l’accent est mis sur les données d’inventaire annuel. Nous proposons un nouvel estimateur basé sur l’analyse de variables à l’échelle de la placette qui indiquent à quel moment un changement des conditions forestières survient entre les mesures répétées d’un inventaire. Nous avons dérivé un estimateur basé sur le maximum de vraisemblance pondéré qui tient compte de la nature binomiale des variables indicatrices, des conditions de la placette estimées à l’aide d’outils cartographiques et des intervalles de temps variables entre deux mesures. Des exemples d’application montrent l’utilité de la méthode proposée. Cette approche est généralement utile pour estimer le taux annuel de changement d’une condition initiale vers une autre condition à partir des données d’inventaire forestier annuel. [Traduit par la Rédaction]
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تاریخ انتشار 2009