Forest Mensuration. Brack and Wood

• Abney Level - instrument for measuring slopes and tree height
• Angle count sampling, Point sampling, PPS sampling, Variable radius plot sampling (VRP sampling), Plotless cruising or plotless survey.
• Bark thickness
• Basal Area
  • Tree Basal Area
  • Stand Basal Area
  • BAF Calibration - calibrating the Basal Area Factors for wedges
• Blume Leiss - instrument for measuring slopes and tree
• Climbing techniques
• Criterion laser dendrometer - instrument for measuring height, diameter, basal are and survey information
• Crown dimensions
• DBHOB - Diameter Breast Height Over Bark and its measurement
  • Comparing instruments for measuring DBHOB
• Calipers - instrument for measuring diameter
• Definitions - definitions of usual measurement terms
  • Metric - standard units of measurement
• Dendrometer bands - research tool for measuring diameter
• Density, Stand Density - tree cover and competition on an area
• Equations for estimating length, area and volume
• Errors - where measured values are not the same as 'true' values
• Example Inventories
  • Edrom Hardwood, point-3P inventory
• Form Factor - parameter describing tree shape
• Form Quotient - parameter describing tree shape
• Fractal Geometry, Self-similarity
• Growth - change in the forest
  • Individual Tree Growth
  • Growth of a stand
  • Classical Method for determining stand growth
• Haga - instrument for measuring diameter
• Height Sticks - instrument for measuring height
• Height of Stands
• Height of Trees
  • Trigonometry based methods for vertical trees
  • Trigonometry based methods for leaning trees
  • Comparing instruments for measuring height
• Height : Diameter curves
• Inventory - determining what is in the forest now
• JAL Hypsometer - instrument for measuring height
• LEM 300 laser dendrometer - instrument for measuring height
• Logs
• Management - presenting results to managers
• Measurement philosophy - what does 'measurement' mean?
• Relaskop (Relascope) - instrument for measuring diameter, height and basal area
• Significant Figures - number of figures to present in a calculation.
• Site, Site Index - quantifying the potential growth of a stand
• Stands - measuring groups of trees
• Stand height - predominant mean height, stand top height.
• Stand Table - diameter distribution, diameter frequency table
• Stem analysis - method for estimating tree growth
• Suunto - instrument for measuring height and slope
• Taper
• Tree Shape
• Vertex hypsometer - instrument for measuring height
• Volume of single trees
  • Water Displacement, fluid immersion
  • Standard Sectional Technique
  • Taper Step Technique
  • Taper Line Technique
  • Graphical Technique
  • Taper Sample Techniques - Importance Sampling, Centroid Sampling
• Wedge Prisms - instrument for measuring stand basal area
• Wheeler Pentaprism - instrument for measuring upper stem diamters

http://online.anu.edu.au/Forestry/mensuration/INDEX.HTM
Cris.Brack@anu.edu.au
Fri, 20 Dec. 1996