Forest Products Measurement

Highlights

• NEW! Timber Tips, January 2017 No. 3 (PDF, 1.1 MB)
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• Forest Management Service Center Fiscal Annual Report Fiscal Year 2016 (PDF, 669 KB)

The Forest Products Measurements group coordinates biometric activities for the National Forests throughout the nation. Our primary responsibilities are for cruising, scaling, volume estimation and spatial information/area determination supporting the Forest Service’s Forest Product Sales program. We provide technical support for cruising, scaling, and volume estimation equations, processes, and software. You may use the resources available on this website, call us or contact us by e-mail.

• Timber Cruising
  Documentation, training, and software to assist designing, collecting, and processing timber cruise data.
• Log Scaling
  Documentation, training, and software to assist collecting and processing log scale data.
• Volume Estimation
  Documentation, procedures, software to develop and validate the National Volume Estimator Library (NVEL) models.
• Biomass Volume Estimation
  Documentation, tools and software for using and developing the National Biomass Estimator Library (NBEL).
• Geospatial
  Documentation, tools, and software for surveying and mapping in conjunction with forest products measurement.

• Additional Tools
  Additional software tools have been developed to assist with sampling and timber theft issues.

• Handbooks and Guides
  Supporting documentation for cruising, scaling, volume estimation, and area determination.
• Support
  Contact us with your questions or problems regarding our products or forest products measurement.
• Training
  Forest Products Measurement training resources.
• Timber Tips
  Timber management ideas of interest and success stories.

Last modified: Wednesday, 21-Oct-2015 11:49:11 CDT