Forest Analysis Techniques

Lesson notes

This lesson will show your students how they can leverage their existing GIS knowledge in analyzing forests, including reclassifying and characterizing, from several perspectives. It’s assumed that students have at least intermediate ArcGIS skills.

In the Lesson background and Methods background sections that follow, you’ll find details on forest analysis, as well as reclassifying and characterizing. You can use this material when introducing your students to the lesson, before they tackle the lab exercises. The background material will not expose your students to new ArcGIS functionality. In fact, the examples provided should be quite familiar, with the possible exception of spatial join and zonal statistics. The purpose of the background material is establishing conceptual context for the lesson.

The lesson’s four lab exercises are detailed in the Lab exercises section that follows. Labs are structured to engage students with the background material in real application settings. If this is your students’ first lesson in the Forestry series, then you can also use the examples in the background material to introduce the Woodlot inventory.

About this Lab

Title: Forest Analysis Techniques

Author: Glen Jordan

File: F02_AnalysisNotes.doc (ArcGIS 10), F02_AnalysisNotes_2013.doc (ArcGIS 10.1)

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