FIAIM

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FIA-IM

• Forest Inventory and Analysis
• Information Management

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Who are we?

• A group of Information Technology and GIS
  specialists located in Portland and Anchorage.

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Team Structure

• IT Specialists
• George Breazeale
• Ron Wanek
• Kurt Campbell
• Bruce Hiserote
• Chuck Veneklase
• Larry Potts
• Alison Nimura
• Lisa Mahal
• Jane Reid

• GIS Specialists
• Dale Weyermann
• John Chase
• Elaina Graham

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What do we do?

• GIS Support
• Data Base expertise
• Oracle and MS Access
• Programming Services
• Training
• Data Distribution
• Hardware support
• PDR, Laptop, Printer, GPS

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PNW FVS File Creator Version 1.1.0

• Formats IDB data into FVS ready input files

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IDB Database Connection
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IDB Inventory
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Boundary Viewer View Plot Boundary and Tree
Data from Nims Oracle, Access Database, or Field
Crew Plot Files.
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Boundary Viewer View Plot Boundaries and trees
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FSVEG NIMSLOAD Interface
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FIA Klamath sample design data in FSVeg
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Client Requests

• Marbled Murrelet
• 5 needle pine
• McNally Fire data
• Data for Species distribution study

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Data Availability

• Integrated Data Base (IDB)
• Periodic (Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington)
• Juniper
• Western and Eastern Washington
• Annual 2000-2003 (2004 July/05)
• GIS requests
• Fuzzed plot coordinates

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The Pacific Northwest Forest Inventory and
Analysis Integrated Database
PNW - IDB
A database of forest inventory information for
California, Oregon, and Washington
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IDB distribution

• www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fia/publications/data
• Version 2.0 release in April
• Latest version 1.4-1

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Periodic data distribution

• Contact George Breazeale (gbreazeale_at_fs.fed.us)
• Visit the FIADB (www.ncrs2.fs.fed.us)
• Data, Mapping tools, Tabler

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Annual data distribution

• Direct contact
• FIADB
• www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fia/publications/data

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FIADB mirrors field procedures
Field Data? Plot ? Subplot ? Condition ? Tree
? Seedling ? Site tree ? Boundary ?
Oracle Tables Plot Subplot Condition Tree Seedling
Site tree Boundary Survey County
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Run Forest Inventory Mapmaker program.  The user
inputs the following information 1) geographic
area of interest (state/county retrieval or
radius retrieval)2) attribute of interest
(timberland area, number of trees, growing-stock
volume, etc.)3) optional filters (for
restricting the query to a specific ownership,
species, etc.)4) classification variables to be
used for columns and rowsand the web application
generates the resulting table. If the user
selects County or Congressional District as the
row variable a shaded county map is generated.
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Forest Inventory Mapmaker Version 1.0 Geographic
area of interest is Oregon 1999 cycle 4 (Cycle 4
National Forest System land is not included
Western Oregon 1995-1997Eastern Oregon 1998-1999
- Periodic inventory) Baker, Benton, Clackamas,
Clatsop, Columbia, Coos, Crook.The attribute of
interest is Area of forestland(acres).No filters
were used.Pages are None.Rows are County
code.Columns are National Forests.
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Local vs. National

• FIA-IM has both local and National duties
• What is a Band?

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National Development Efforts NIMS
National Information Management
SystemePlot National PDR program
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NIMS

• National Information Management System
• Used to Load, Check, Compile, Output FIA data

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Natl Core NIMS Core Regional QA
Pass Edits?

• Computations
• National
• Regional

Yes
Load
Output
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Between the dream and reality lies the
nightmare Hunter S. Thompson Or in this case the
Data Base!
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Taper Equation
V b0D2b1H
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Conclusion or Acronyms used

• CVS
• QA

• FVS
• VIM
• NIMS
• NFS
• ODBC
• MDB
• NWFP
• BLM
• FS

• FIA
• IM
• GIS
• MS
• PDR
• GPS
• IDB
• PNW
• FIADB

lt10 correct Wake up! 10-15 correct We'll send
you data! 16-18 correct Good job! 19-20 correct
True Bureacrat!
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GIS / REMOTE SENSING
SUPPORT OF FIELD DATA COLLECTION
SUPPORT OF ANALYSIS AND REPORTING TEAMS
SUPPORT OF NATIONAL FIA PROJECTS
CLIENT REQUESTS
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GIS / REMOTE SENSING
SUPPORT OF FIELD DATA COLLECTION
SUPPORT OF ANALYSIS AND REPORTING TEAMS
SUPPORT OF NATIONAL FIA PROJECTS
CLIENT REQUESTS
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GIS / REMOTE SENSING
SUPPORT OF FIELD DATA COLLECTION
PLANNING AND FIELD NAVIGATION MAPS
MAINTENANCE OF PLOT GRID AND COORDINATES
SUPPORT OF ANALYSIS AND REPORTING TEAMS
SUPPORT OF NATIONAL FIA PROJECTS
CLIENT REQUESTS
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GIS / REMOTE SENSING
SUPPORT OF FIELD DATA COLLECTION
SUPPORT OF ANALYSIS AND REPORTING TEAMS
SUPPORT OF NATIONAL FIA PROJECTS
CLIENT REQUESTS
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GIS / REMOTE SENSING
SUPPORT OF FIELD DATA COLLECTION
SUPPORT OF ANALYSIS AND REPORTING TEAMS
ANALYSIS PROJECTS BIOSUM, FOR EXAMPLE
MAPS FOR PUBLICATIONS AND MEETINGS
TRAINING IN ARCGIS
SUPPORT OF NATIONAL FIA PROJECTS
CLIENT REQUESTS
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GIS / REMOTE SENSING
SUPPORT OF FIELD DATA COLLECTION
SUPPORT OF ANALYSIS AND REPORTING TEAMS
SUPPORT OF NATIONAL FIA PROJECTS
CLIENT REQUESTS
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GIS / REMOTE SENSING
SUPPORT OF FIELD DATA COLLECTION
SUPPORT OF ANALYSIS AND REPORTING TEAMS
SUPPORT OF NATIONAL FIA PROJECTS
NATIONAL BIOMASS MAP
NATIONAL FOREST TYPE MAP
CLIENT REQUESTS
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GIS / REMOTE SENSING
SUPPORT OF FIELD DATA COLLECTION
SUPPORT OF ANALYSIS AND REPORTING TEAMS
SUPPORT OF NATIONAL FIA PROJECTS
CLIENT REQUESTS
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GIS / REMOTE SENSING
SUPPORT OF FIELD DATA COLLECTION
SUPPORT OF ANALYSIS AND REPORTING TEAMS
SUPPORT OF NATIONAL FIA PROJECTS
CLIENT REQUESTS
PLOT CONFIDENTIALITY
PLOT COORDINATE AVAILABILITY
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PLOT CONFIDENTIALITY
THE RULES ARE PRETTY MUCH STILL THE SAME YOU
NEED FORMAL AUTHORIZATION TO ACCESS THE ACTUAL
PLOT COORDINATES. THE FUZZED COORDINATES ARE
PUBLICALLY AVAILABLE.
PLOT COORDINATE AVAILABILITY
ALL DATA UPLOADED TO FIADB CONTAINS
FUZZED/SWAPPED COORDINATES, INCLUDING PERIODIC
AND ANNUAL, AND ALL STATES
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How can I keep up with all these changes??
web access
fia.fs.fed.us lots of info about FIA, links to
FIADB
PNW FIA access for confidentiality questions
Dale Weyermann [phone] dweyermann_at_fs.fed.us

Forest Inventory and Analysis Spatial Data
Services
Elizabeth LaPoint [phone] elapoint_at_fs.fed.u
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