Interpolation techniques evaluation to estimate volume in cloned forest Eucalyptus sp. / Avaliação do uso de técnicas de interpolação para estimativa de volume em florestas clonais de Eucalyptus sp.

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2009

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The Knowledge about the forest stock is an important tool to support the short, medium and long term planning. In each stand the stock is obtained through the forest inventory. This work aimed to apply geostatistics concepts that get benefits from the spatial dependence of certain variables to estimate the volume at non sampled points. For this study, it were used interpolation methods ,which procedure is used to estimate the variables values in the internal area of the sampled points, allowing to represent the locally sampled variables behavior and extrapolate the variables value to the outside sampled area. It were sampled 34 plots to estimates the forest inventory and 36 control plots were sampled to compare the differences between the estimated and actually measured value for the variables: volume, basal area and average height of a cloned Eucalyptus group of stands in approximately 205 ha, located in Mogi-Guaçu-SP. Futher these plots, it were measure more 24 plots in an adjacent area which were used to compose a scenarios study that could support the improvements in borders regions estimations. Using the Geomedia Professional ® software, three interpolation methods were tested: Kriging, Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) and Spline. For each method it was performed simulations considering the inclusion of new plots to evaluate the estimate behavior by increasing the sample size. In this procedure, we created 6 different scenarios with increasing numbers of plots: Am with 34 plots, G with 58 plots, G +5 with 63 plots, G +10 with 68 plots, G +15 with 73 plots and G +20 with 78 plots. The comparison between the estimated and measured value was made through the errors in percentage for each plot. All the tested models had a tendency, on average, to underestimate the values. The minimum error found for volume was -3.17% estimated by the Spline model. For height and basal area the minor deviations were -1.7% and 0.82% estimated by the Spline model also. In the estimations made by the Kriging model, the best result was -7.95%, -2.25% and -5.75% deviation for basal area, height and volume, respectively. IDW model resulted in a deviation of -7.48%, -1.29%, -7.53% for the same variables. The result analysis shows that the estimations made by the interpolation models using implicit geostatistical software models produces some significant deviations and the use of adjusted geostatistical models to the data set may produce better estimates.

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geoestatística interpolação estatística. geostatistics forest florestas cloning eucalyptus clonagem interpolation. statistical eucalipto

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