Paper Info
Title
Visualizing tree crowns for forest managers: informatics tools enhance natural resource management
Abstract
Ecologists aim to answer fundamental scientific questions regarding the natural world. Resource managers make practical decisions about natural resources, often with incomplete data. Our goal is to make research results more available to managers who decide which trees to leave when a forest stand is harvested. To that end, we work with Washington State resource managers and forest canopy researchers to: 1) determine what information technology might make new ecology research more applicable to managers, 2) articulate ecological values that dictate leave trees, 3) understand how those values are communicated. We have designed a catalog of tree crown structure with visualizations and metrics that help interpret complex research data for practitioners. This work extends prior NSF work to build research tools for ecologists, and addresses information technology issues of data presentation and data quality.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2008
DG.O
data presentation,nsf work,complex research data,natural resource management,addresses information technology issue,forest manager,informatics tool,research tool,washington state resource manager,new ecology research,visualizing tree crown,incomplete data,research result,data quality,knowledge representation,data visualization,forest management,decision support,scaling,human computer interaction,data integration
Field
DocType
Citations 
Data integration,Data science,Data quality,Information technology,Computer science,Decision support system,Knowledge management,Ecoinformatics,Natural resource,Health informatics tools,Natural resource management
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
10
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Judith Bayard Cushing1193106.22
Lee Zeman262.03
Natalie Kopytko320.80
Nik Molnar400.34
Anne McIntosh500.34
Nalini Nadkarni6132.41
Lois M. L. Delcambre7992420.78
David Maier856391666.90
Fred Martin921.47
Ted Keeley1000.34