Increased Precision in County-Level Volume Estimates in the United States National Forest Inventory With Area-Level Small Area Estimation

Increased Precision in County-Level Volume Estimates in the United States National Forest Inventory With Area-Level Small Area Estimation

Many National Forest Inventory (NFI) stakeholders would benefit from accurate estimates at finer geographic scales than most currently implemented in operational estimates using NFI sample data. In the past decade small area estimation techniques have been shown to increase precision in forest inven...

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Main Authors: Qianqian Cao, Garret T. Dettmann, Philip J. Radtke, John W. Coulston, Jill Derwin, Valerie A. Thomas, Harold E. Burkhart, Randolph H. Wynne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Subjects:
spatial Fay-Herriot models
model-assisted analysis
model-based estimation
composite estimators
forest inventory
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2022.769917/full

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