AAIR Project No PL 94-2392

Silvicultural strategies for predicting damage to forests from wind, fire and snow.

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Task 4

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Defining Stand-level Variability to Permit
Application of Tree-level Models

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View DEMs of the Test Area generated using aerial photographs

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Objectives
To study how relationships pertinent to the single tree scale developed under Task 3 can be applied at the stand level where there are assemblages of trees. This includes determining how we deal with population variability, wind field variability and site characteristic variability. This task will also develop methods for determining this variability through the use of air flow and growth models, inventory data, knowledge databases and remote sensing (e.g. aerial photography and spectral radiometry).

Methodology
Use models and remote sensing techniques to characterise within stand variability in critical parameters of wind spee and tree dimensions.

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