Forest Mensuration Handbook
G J Hamilton
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Contents: Key to Procedures
Acknowledgments
Contents
Index to Charts and Tables by Species
Introduction
GENERAL ASPECTS OF MEASUREMENT
Expression of quantity
The need for conventions
Cost/benefit aspects of measurement
Choice of method
MEASUREMENT CONVENTIONS
Diameter (dbh, mid-, top-)
Length
Volume
MEASUREMENT OF FELLED TIMBER
Procedure 1 - Timber lengths, sawlogs, billets
(mid-diameter >< length>< length>< length>< length)
Procedure 5 - Stacked timber
(i) Measurement of stacks
(ii) Solid/stacked conversion factors
Procedure 6 - Weight
(i) Weight measurement
(ii) Establishing volume/weight ratios
MEASUREMENT OF STANDING TINEBER
Procedure 7 - Single standing trees (dbh, height)
Alignment charts
Procedure 8 - Standing sales (tariff system)
Procedure 9 - Inventory, valuation
(top height, basal area, stand area)
Form height tables,
Alignment charts
Procedure 10 - Piece-work payment
(top height, dbh, nos. of trees)
Procedure 11 - Thinning control (top height/tariff, dbh)
MISCELLANEOUS
1. Sampling
2. Plot sizes
3. Relascope
4. Height measurement
5. Bark
Bark volume tables
6. Assortments
Assortment tables
7. Sawn softwood sizes
8. Geometric formulae
9. Conversion factors
10. Abbreviations
TABLES
Roundwood tables (mid-diameter, length)
Sawlog tables (top diameter, length)
Smallwood tables (top diameter, length)
Pitwool tables (top diameter, length)
Tariff tables
Selected Index