Comparison of a Fully Mapped Plot Design to Three Alternative Designs for Volumeand Area Estimates Using Maine Inventory Data

摘要

A fully mapped plot design is compared to three alternative designs using datacollected for the recent inventory of Maine's forest resources. Like the fully mapped design, one alternative eliminates the bias of previous procedures, and should be less costly and more consistent. There was little difference in volume and area estimates or in sampling errors among the four procedures.