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http://dx.doi.org/10.14578/jkfs.2015.104.1.117

Estimations of Forest Growing Stocks in Small-area Level Considering Local Forest Characteristics  

Kim, Eun-Sook (Center for Forest and Climate Change, Korea Forest Research Institute)
Kim, Cheol-Min (Center for Forest and Climate Change, Korea Forest Research Institute)
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Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science / v.104, no.1, 2015 , pp. 117-126 More about this Journal
Abstract
Forest statistics of local administrative districts have many social needs, nevertheless we have some difficulties for working out an accurate statistics because of insufficient data in small-area level. Thus, new small-area estimation method has to set aside additional data, decrease errors of statistics and consider the local forest characteristics at the same time. In this study, we researched the spatial divisions that can set aside additional data for statistics production and satisfy the major premise, which is "forest characteristics of spatial divisions have to be equal to that of small-area". And we compared synthetic estimation methods based on three different spatial divisions(provinces, neighbor districts and new expanded districts). New expanded districts were divided based on the criteria of climate, soil type and tree species composition that affects local forest characteristics. Small-area statistics were assessed in terms of the ability to estimate local forest characteristics and consistency within large-area statistics. As a result, new expanded districts synthetic estimation was assessed to calculate statistics that reflects local forest characteristics better than other two estimation methods. Moreover, this synthetic estimation method produced the statistics that was included within 95% confidence interval of large-area statistics and was the closer to large-area statistics than the neighbor districts synthetic estimation.
Keywords
forest statistics; small-area estimation; synthetic estimation; neighborhood information;
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