Listed below are links to most of the abstracts associated with the presentations tentatively scheduled for the 4 th Southern Forest and Natural Resources GIS Conference. A few more abstracts will be added in the near future. In addition, the abtracts are currently (after acknowledging the keynote speaker) listed in alphabetical order (by first author's last name). The precise grouping of presentations within the conference will be made by September 2004. A chronological schedule with links to abstracts will then replace this page.

Keynote Speaker: Virginia Dale
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Analyzing Land-Use Change at Different Scales in Central Georgia

Keynote Speaker: Jim Brenner
Florida Divsion of Forestry
The Road Less Traveled By

B. Barber and J. D. Kushla
Texas Forest Service; North Mississippi Research and Extension Center
Using GIS for Oak Wilt Suppression in Central Texas

G. R. Barker, K. Barker and R. Cauthen
Athens-Clarke County Community Tree Council; Natural Resources Technologies (Tallassee, AL); Athens-Clarke County Landscape Division
Building a Sustainable Community Forest Information System (CFIS)

L. Baskaran, V. Dale, M. Aldridge, M. Berry, W. Birkhead, M. Chang, R. Efroymson, C. Garten and C. Steward
Oak Ridge National Laboratory; University of Tennessee; Columbus State University; Georgia Tech; Aberdeen Proving Ground (9)
Habitat modeling within a Regional Simulation Model (RSim) environment

R. Boggs
Kentucky Division of Forestry
How We Got Where We Are - Who Got Us Here and How?

T. Borisova, G. D'Souza, D. Miller and C. Zabriskie
West Virginia University; Canaan Valley Institute
A Geographic Analysis of the Marketing Strategy for WV Aquaculture Producers

A. J. Brenner
Space Imaging, LLC
KLS Overview and Forest Type Map Creation

Brokopp, Sherri K., Denise Castronovo, Georgia N. Silvera, Brian Bean
The Greater Boston Urban Forest Inventory: An Integrated Approach to Managing the Urban Forest

C. Cieszewski, T. Lowe, M. Zasada, R. I. Elle, S. Liu, Q. Meng, C. Ni, and B. Stewart
Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia
UGA Fiber Supply Assessment Projects and Information Access

R. Combs
Orbis GIS Inc., Charlotte, NC
Forest Management Information Systems - A Small Business Approach to Managing Timber Inventory and GIS Data

T. M. Fearer, S. P. Prisley, D. F. Stauffer and P. D. Keyser
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife Sciences, Virginia Tech; Department of Forestry, Virginia Tech; Forestry Division, MeadWestvaco
Evaluating Population-Habitat Relationships of Forest Breeding Birds at Multiple Scales Using Forest Inventory and Analysis Data

J. A. Griffith
Department of Geography, University of Southern Mississippi
Wither King Cotton in Mississippi? Land Cover Dynamics Reveal Change to Pine Plantations in the Loess Hills

B. R. Gyawali, R. Fraser and W. Tadesse
Center for Forestry and Ecology, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, Alabama A&M University; Center for Hydrology and Remote Sensing, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences Alabama A&M University
Spatial Variability of Land Cover and Socio-economics in the Black-belt Region of Alabama

S. J. Harper and R. R. Sharitz
Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia
Delineating sandhill communities: the use of advanced techniques to extract features from aerial photographs and satellite imagery

M. M. Hossain, A. S. Islam, M. R. Islam and S. Saha
Department of Water Resources Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology; Institute of Water and Flood Management, BUET, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh
Rainfall forecasting using remote sensing data in Bangladesh

I.-K. Hung, J. M. Williams, J. C. Kroll and D. R. Unger
College of Forestry, Stephen F. Austin State University
Forest Landscape Changes in East Texas from 1974 to 2002

C. A. Jantz, S. J. Goetz, P. A. Jantz and B. Melchior
The Woods Hole Research Center; The University of Maryland
Resource land loss and forest vulnerability in the Chesapeake Bay watershed

B. W. Kew and B. D. Lee
Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Kentucky
Economic impacts to Composite Index of Sprawl

R. W. Kirk, T. E. Burk and P. V. Bolstad
Department of Forest Resources, University of Minnesota
A framework for regional-scale forest production modeling using process- based models and GIS

L. Kramer
NAtural Resource Spatial Analysis Laboratory (NARSAL), Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia
Threats to land conservation and biodiversity protection in Georgia

D. J. Lipscomb and T. M. Williams
Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Clemson University; Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Clemson University
Examining RCW management changes in the 2003 Recovery Plan using habitat mapping

L. MacSwords
Kentucky Division of Forestry
The Kentucky GeoBook - A Powerful Rapport Building Tool Between Forester and Landowner

M. Madden
Center for Remote Sensing and Mapping Science (CRMS), Department of Geography, The University of Georgia
Forest Mapping, Visualization and Analysis in National Parks of the Southeastern United States

M. Milligan and R. Greene
Landmark Systems, Tallahassee, FL
Effective use of high-resolution digital imagery for forest management

C. Neese
Orbis GIS Inc., Charlotte, NC
Cadastral Forestry - A New Approach to Managing Forestry GIS Data

D. R. Oetter, W. B. Cohen, T. K. Maiersperger, and M. Fiorella
Georgia College & State University; USDA Forest Service; Pacific Meridian Resources
GIS and remote sensing methods for mapping forests: Lessons from the Western Oregon Vegetation Mapping Project

S. Prisley and D. Daversa
Department of Forestry, Virginia Tech
Measuring the influence of individual vertices on polygon area: implications for errors in area estimates

P. P. Siska and P. Goovaerts
College of Forestry, Stephen F. Austin State University; TerraSeer Inc. Ann Arbor, MI
The Assessment of Tree-Volume Distribution in East Texas Ecosystem Using Probabilistic Kriging and Sequential Gaussian Simulation

J. L. Smith
JL Smith Geosolutions, Jacksonville, FL
A Southern Geospatial Technology Retrospective: Grits, Tics and Pics

J. Stikeleather
Forest Technology Group - Chief Technology Officer
The Next Generation of Forestry Information Systems: A Technological, Sociological and Economic Perspective

T. M. Williams, B. Song and D. J. Lipscomb
Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Clemson University; Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Clemson University
Visualization of past forest conditions from historical aerial photography

T. M. Williams, B. Song and D. J. Lipscomb
Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science, Clemson University; Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Clemson University
Data requirements to map ephemeral and intermittent stream positions in piedmont forests

C. L. VanderSchaaf and S.P. Prisley
Department of Forestry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Factors affecting site productivity of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantations across the southeastern United States

M. J. Yabsley, M. C. Wimberly, V. G. Dugan, D. E. Stallknecht, S. E. Little, and W. R. Davidson
Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study and College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia(1, 3, 4, 6) and Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia (2, 6)
Spatial analysis of the distribution of Ehrlichia chaffeensis, causative agent of human monocytotropic ehrlichiosis, across a multi state region