A geostatistical approach to optimize sampling designs for local forest inventories
2009
Hernandez, Jaime | Emery, Xavier
In forest management, it is of interest to obtain detailed inventories such that the local prediction errors on forest attributes are less than a prespecified threshold, while keeping the number of ground samples as low as possible. Given an initial sampling design, we propose an algorithm to determine the additional sample locations. The algorithm relies on two tools: geostatistical simulation, which allows measuring the uncertainty in the values of the attribute of interest, and simulated annealing, which allows finding an infill design that minimizes a given objective function. The proposed approach is applied to a data set from a Prosopis spp. plantation located in the Atacama Desert, in which the measured attribute is the rate of tree survival.
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