Analysis of the airborne laser scanning technology use for forest inventories in cloned Eucalyptus sp plantations in the southern Bahia. / Análise do uso da tecnologia laser aerotransportado para inventários florestais em plantios clonais de Eucalyptus sp no sul da Bahia

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2009

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The application of the airborne laser scanning (ALS) technology for forest inventories execution, have been presented as an excellent alternative to the forest planning area, particularly by the excellent results in terms of accuracy of the estimates, by the facilities of usage and other products and benefits derived from LASER overflight. The technology evolution and lower cost for GPS and Inertial Measurement Units have been the main factor of the success for ALS technology application. Several studies of ALS technology analysis in forest inventories, some even in commercial scales (NAESSET, 2007), have been conducted mainly in Europe and Canada. The results have been very attractive, among which there are the volume and basal area estimates which have made errors of up to 8.4% depending on the settings of the sampled area. Thus, this study aimed to examine the use of the ALS technology for forest inventories executions at plot and stands levels in clonal Eucalyptus sp plantations in the south of Bahia state. Field surveys were conducted to provide the parameters estimation such as diameter, tree heights, basal area and volume in circular plots of thirteen-meter radius, which were the diameter of all trees and height of a the seven trees of each plot. The overflown areas for LASER data collection were two bands of approximately 2x20km. LASER data were processed to obtain the percentiles of the ALS observations in the following levels 10 (f_h10), 30 (f_h30), 50 (f_h50), 70 (f_h70) e 90 (f_h90), and 90 (f_h90) and the density of points in the respective percentiles (f_p10, f_p30, f_p50, f_p70 and f_p90), the average height of the points (f_havg) and the standard deviation (f_hstd). These statistics were used in the regression models to estimate mean diameter, mean height, dominant height, basal area and volume of the sampled plots. For the volume, an exploration of different combinations of the variables supported the definition of the most promising relations and most promising use of these variables in the set of models already established in the biometrics and forest inventory area.The ALS observations that better fit to the average diameter were f_h30 and f_p30, resulting in a R²=0.88 and RQEM%=0.0004; for the average height, f_h10 and f_h90 generate good estimates, having R²=0.94 and RQEM%=0. 0003, therefore for the dominant height, the best estimates were obtained with f_h90, showing R²=0.96 and RQEM%=0.0003. For the basal area, the best fit used age, f_h10 and f_havg, presenting a R²=0.92 and RQEM%=0.0016. In the volume case, the two best exploratory models point to the use of age, f_h30 and f_p90, both with R ² between 0.94 and 0.95 and RQEM% between 000.2 and 000.3. Among the biometric tested models, the best were Schumacher fitted by age and f_h90; Clutter fitted by age, f_havg and f_h70; Buckman fitted by age, f_havg and f_h10.

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inventário florestal laser cloning biometria clonagem forest planning. planejamento florestal. laser florestas forest inventory biometric

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