Tuesday – Wednesday, December 14-15, 2004

Introduction to ArcGIS® I (#55170)

8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

(lunch, materials, and refreshment breaks are included in the registration fee; 12.0 Continuing Forestry Education hours — Category 1)

Welcome to ArcGIS®. Here begins the foundation for becoming a successful ArcView®, ArcEditor™, or ArcInfo™ user. This course covers fundamental GIS concepts as well as how to query a GIS database, manipulate tabular data, edit spatial and attribute data, and present data clearly and efficiently using maps and charts. Participants learn how to use ArcMap™, ArcCatalog™, and ArcToolbox™ and explore how these applications work together to provide a complete GIS software solution.

Instructor: Dale Loberger, ESRI

Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Trends and Methods for Achieving More Accurate Inventories (#55171)

8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

(lunch, materials, and refreshment breaks are included in the registration fee; 6.5 Continuing Forestry Education hours — Category 1)

This course will introduce foresters to a new approach in forest inventory. With technical advances allowing us to efficiently collect and process data with more precision, our approach to forest management has changed from stand level to plot level. We will introduce the RTI concepts and will have a short field session to demonstrate what is involved — from data collection to data processing.

Instructors: Mark Milligan and Brian Holley, Landmark Systems


Digital Imagery for Natural Resource Management (#55172)

8:30 a.m.– 12 noon

(lunch, materials, and refreshment breaks are included in the registration fee; 3.0 Continuing Forestry Education hours — Category 1)

Digital airborne and satellite imagery is becoming more common in the natural resource management workplace. While film-based aerial photography seems to be well-understood, many resource managers are not fully aware of the characteristics, issues, and opportunities that come with digital imagery, either airborne or satellite. The objective of this workshop is to provide a basic level of knowledge about digital imagery so resource managers can correctly identify their needs and requirements relative to cost and can understand how digital imagery can be integrated into their day-to-day activities.

Instructor: James L. Smith, GIStrategies

Acquisition Inventory (#56031)

8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

(lunch, materials, and refreshment breaks are included in the registration fee; 6.5 Continuing Forestry Education hours — Category 1)

A tremendous amount of timberland has been changing owners every year for the past 10+years in the Southern U.S. The many reasons for this include forest products companies’ consolidation activities and private investors’ placement of funds in timberland investment vehicles. Oftentimes, potential timberland buyers are made aware of available timberland parcels on very short notice — sometimes as short as 3 to 4 weeks. This exacerbates the already complex problem of valuing large timberland parcels that contain a wide mix of stand types of both pre-merchantable and merchantable timber. Obviously, a key to reasonable timberland valuation is realistic valuation of current standing timber inventories. In this course, we will discuss the weaknesses and strengths of various acquisition inventory methods. This will include traditional approaches such as using a low-intensity sampling grid across the property as well as more sophisticated methods such as stratified two-stage list sampling. General recommendations for standardizing the acquisition problem will be presented and supported with “real world” data.

Instructors: Bruce Borders and Barry Shiver, The University of Georgia, Daniel B. Warnell School of Forest Resources