FIA field crews collect data from approximately 7500 randomly selected research sites across the Northern Region every year This inventory allows FIA to monitor the productivity and health of forests detect changes in many attributes of the forest resource and recognize trends in forest conditions
observed some data elements are estimated and some information is calculated or predicted Regardless of the source of the data the informations quality is critical to its eventual use To ensure quality the FIA Unit has a quality assurance program that covers all aspects of data collection and calculation Phase 2Phase 3 Plot Design
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FIA Mobile Integrated Data Acquisition System
Forest Inventory and Analysis US Forest Service Research and Development
The Mobile Integrated Data Acquisition System MIDAS now in use by all Southern States includes both a field data collection program and a system of Webbased data management tools Completion of the MIDAS system standardizes data collection across the entire FIA plot network and the systems programs are applicable to work across the
The Forest Inventory and Analysis FIA program of the USDA Forest Service provides the information needed to assess Americas forests The long history of scientifically credible FIA data provides critical status and trend information to resource managers policy makers investors and the public through a system of annual resource inventory that covers both public and private forest lands
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Fia Mobile Integrated Data Acquisition System
Forest Vegetation Simulator FVS Software Data Acquisition
Building Knowledge Informing Decisions Empowering Partnerships The USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis FIA Program is in the information business Our focus is on the extent condition and trends of forest land across the entire country We invest 75 million a year to collect data across three themes field inventories of forest land a census of the forest products
The FIA data flow process begins with the prefield stage This stage includes activities that occur in advance of field a national task team was formed to develop the FIA Mobile Integrated Data Acquisition System MIDAS a data entry program that is used by all regions to collect both national and regional data The MIDAS system is being
5 A new function to provide a plot data archive for files that crews dont want to lose if their PC crashes Crews have readwrite access to their personal folder to createdelete filesfolders on the MIDAS server but only have read access to other crews filesfolders to allow files to be shared
FIA Mobile Integrated Data Acquisition System
For more information on data acquisition contact the Data Acquisition Band Lead Maryfaith Snyder Information Management Band Focuses on data management systems for FIA data including systems for data collection data editing and validation internal and public databases and web applications that allow all users to access and analyze FIA data
Fia Mobile Integrated Data Acquisition System
Mobile Integrated Data Acquisition System Menu Options Field QAQC Edit You are accessing a US Government information system which includes 1 this computer 2 this computer network 3 all computers connected to this network and 4 all devices and storage media attached to this network or to a computer on this network This
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The FVSDBLINK utility builds Forest Vegetation Simulator FVS data files for settings that have been loaded into FSVeg FVSDBLINK Utility Users Guide PDF 09282012 388K Forest Inventory Analysis FIA Data Each States FIA database FIADB also includes FVSready tables The FIADB SQLite state tables can be downloaded from the FIA
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