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FIA TOOLS Forest Inventory & Analysis Web-based tools. FIA TOOLS. Interactive programs with a User Interface Available 24 – 7, on the national FIA website Easy access to the national FIA database Generate Reports with FIDO, Evalidator Download data with DataMart
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FIA TOOLS • Interactive programs with a User Interface • Available 24 – 7, on the national FIA website • Easy access to the national FIA database • Generate Reports with FIDO, Evalidator • Download data with DataMart • Easy access to other FIA databases
Today’s Presentation • Overview of the FIATOOLS web page • Brief introduction to the DataMart • Focus is on FIDO – Forest Inventory Data Online A tool that helps you produce summary • tables & reports and generate simple maps • using the most recent version of the FIADB.
Getting Started…How do you access the FIATOOLS web page? A number of ways … • Home page of the National FIA website http://fia.fs.fed.us/ • Or, enter the keyword “fiatools” on the address line of your browser
http://fia.fs.fed.us/ National FIA website – Home Page
Or, simply type ‘fiatools’ Address line of your Internet Browser Quickest and most direct way to bring up the FIATOOLS webpage
FIA TOOLS web page • FIA TOOLS web page • Push-button User Interface
FIA DataMart Download data, documentation, and summary tables Click a state on the map to download comma-delimited data files Click a state on the map to download a Microsoft Access 2007 database
All the population estimates are listed for every evaluation they are available.
Standard Reports by State goes here Click a state
That’s an overview of the FIAOOLS webpage and how to download FIA data Questions ??
How do you start FIDO ? Go to the FIATOOLS web page Click on FIDO the button!
Custom Retrievals – welcome page 8 steps needed to create and run a report.
FIDO working screen Browser’s
Survey Years Annual Inventory Michigan, 2007 = 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Periodic Inventory Wisconsin, 1996 = year when majority of plots were measured or midpoint
Wait for the report to run Spinning circle means its working!
Your report is ready! Options for display
Single survey per state – Summary of all rows Multiple surveys per state – Summary contains only table totals:
EDIT mode All buttons become active again. Users can change every aspect of the report – from changing the summary output to choosing different survey years.