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Sample Organization and Protocol Plot Design Update FIA Core Band Meeting October 14, 2015

Sample Organization and Protocol Plot Design Update FIA Core Band Meeting October 14, 2015. Troy Heithecker Mark Hatfield. SO and PPD Overview. Brief overview of two modules Current project status Demonstration of modules as they stand Next steps, major obstacles Questions/Discussion.

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Sample Organization and Protocol Plot Design Update FIA Core Band Meeting October 14, 2015

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  1. Sample Organization and Protocol Plot Design Update FIA Core Band MeetingOctober 14, 2015 Troy Heithecker Mark Hatfield

  2. SO and PPD Overview • Brief overview of two modules • Current project status • Demonstration of modules as they stand • Next steps, major obstacles • Questions/Discussion

  3. Sample Organization Purpose: Organize the high-level structure of a forest inventory in a flexible and descriptive manner • Organize data into logical cohorts • Ability to handle varying cycles/subcycles • More precisely describe samples • Describe populations that are not states • E.g., special studies and Urban

  4. Sample Organization High-level Entities: • Population • Population Structure • Project • Series • Time Period • Field Sample

  5. Sample Organization Status • Currently scheduled to be released with Urban FIADB this fall • Urban implementation will show the efficacy module • Then discuss future implementation in NIMS • Core FIADB??? • Overlapping functionality to existing NIMS systems • Implementation more complicated • Involves fairly large changes to existing data/systems • Haven’t fully committed resources to this phase of project • Don’t have resources that could currently be committed

  6. Protocol and Plot Design (PPD) Purpose: Capture a generic meta-model of the information contained within a given protocol • What measurements collected • Levels (e.g., CWD) • Which population entities • Measurements (e.g., DIA, Height, Width) • Which plot design elements • e.g, Transect 1, 270, 24’

  7. PPD Cont. • Provide detailed, query-able meta-model of data • Self-documenting information • Archive-able • Historical protocols and meta-data • Comparisons between protocols • Flexible • Many-to-many relationships allow reuse • Can accommodate many different unique protocols

  8. PPD Cont. • Changes across multiple protocols complex and difficult to analyze and track • Capture as much of this meta-data as possible • Helps analyst to detect important changes and account for them • Little or no reliance on expert knowledge field guides/protocols

  9. PPD Status • Two full protocols nearly populated for Urban • Template for core FIA data entry completed • Collecting information for current core protocols across all regions

  10. Demonstration • Screen share with Mark Hatfield

  11. Next Steps • Sample Organization • Will be released with first version of Urban FIA • “Porting” to core FIADB is not a simple task • Requires redesign of many tables • How many times StateCD in FIADB (38 by my count) • Protocol Plot Design • Continue to populate protocols • Develop a UI/Management System • Continue DB design • Plan release

  12. Questions?

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