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Economic Benefit from Allowing Wildfires to Burn in Federal East-Side Cascade Forests

Creator:: Gagnon, Aaron R.
Abstract:: In this thesis I examine the question: can allowing a wildfire to burn this year result in a net positive economic gain? To answer this question I created 2,500 multiple sets of paired scenarios (called a fire of interest) which consist of ignitions, vegetation growth, and timber harvest over the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: _______________________________________________________________ Head of the Department of Forest Engineering, Resources & Management

Assessment of Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) for use in common forest engineering geomatic applications

Creator:: Craven, Michael B.
Abstract:: Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) has become a popular remote sensing technology to create digital terrain models and provide forest inventory information. However, little research has been done to investigate the accuracy of using airborne LiDAR to perform measurement tasks common to Forest Engineering. This thesis contains two manuscripts...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: research has been done to investigate the accuracy of using airborne LiDAR to perform measurement tasks

The role of strategic planning in the management of fire-prone western Oregon forests for maximizing terrestrial carbon stocks over a 100-year horizon

Creator:: Vanderberg, Michael R.
Abstract:: Current frameworks for analyzing forest carbon offset projects in disturbance-prone western forests often fail to address the dynamic nature of carbon pathways through time. They do not account for the probability of loss due to wildfire, which can influence the prediction of carbon storage at the end of a planning...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Forest Engineering Head of the Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and

Forest biomass estimation with hemispherical photography for multiple forest types and various atmospheric conditions

Creator:: Clark, Joshua Andrew
Abstract:: The importance of accurately identifying inventories of domestic energy, including forest biomass, has increasingly become a priority of the US government and its citizens as the cost of fossil fuels has risen. It is useful to identify which of these resources can be processed and transported at the lowest cost...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: , representing Forest Engineering Head of the Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and

Thinning aged Douglas-fir : an analysis of mobilization costs and a log bucking strategy for revenue improvement

Creator:: Pilkerton, Stephen J.
Abstract:: Contract harvest operations have become the preferred approach to reducing the largest cost component of timber production through free market competition amongst logging contractors bidding or negotiating for work. The goal of this research was to investigate economic components of harvesting operations not previously studied for steep slope thinning harvests...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: bidding or negotiating for work. The goal of this research was to investigate economic components of

Economic modeling of tropical deforestation in Antioquia (Colombia), 1980-2000 : an analysis at a semi-fine scale with spatially explicit data

Creator:: Orrego, Sergio A.
Abstract:: This dissertation used land rent theory and an economic model of land-use conversion to examine the main drivers of the deforestation occurred in Antioquia,Colombia, between 1980 and 2000. Land-cover information at a semi-fine scale (1:25,000) obtained largely from aerial photography was employed to calculate deforestation. In addition, free international databases...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: ____________________________________________________________ Head of the Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management

Radiative forcing and forest climate policy

Creator:: Thompson, Matthew P.
Abstract:: This thesis is comprised of two manuscripts that relate to forest-based management strategies in the context of market-based climate change mitigation policies. The work questions the appropriateness of a singular focus on carbon sequestration given the albedo effect and its possible countervailing climatic impacts. Through a review of salient literature...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . APPROVED: Major Professor, representing Forest Resources Head of the Department of

Optimizing the primary forest products supply chain : a multi-objective heuristic approach

Creator:: Hamann, Jeff D.
Abstract:: This thesis is a collection of four submitted manuscripts that present methods to assist forest ecosystem service managers wanting to develop operational sampling, monitoring, and production plans for a set of specific quantifiable ecosystem services, which are formulated as a series of general multi-objective optimization problems. The problems are solved...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: on July 14, 2008 APPROVED: Major Professor, representing Forest Engineering Head of the Department

Evaluation of a prototype NIR system for Douglas-fir wood density estimation

Creator:: Belart Lengerich, Maria Francisca
Abstract:: Forest products companies in the U.S. face vigorous competition from other wood producers around the world and other industries (steel, aluminum, plastics, composites). To be competitive, forest companies need to control costs, sort and allocate logs to the most appropriate markets, and recover more value at time of harvest. Interest...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Department of Forest Engineering Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my thesis will

In-forest log segregation based on acoustic measurement of wood stiffness

Creator:: Amishev, Dzhamal Y.
Abstract:: To remain competitive, the forest products industry needs to look for new and innovative processes and technologies to not only reduce costs but also to recover more value through the entire seedling-to-customer forest products supply chain. It is well recognized that measuring wood properties of logs in real time during...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Department of Forest Engineering Dean of the Graduate School I understand that my

ScholarsArchive@OSU

Economic Benefit from Allowing Wildfires to Burn in Federal East-Side Cascade Forests

Assessment of Airborne Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) for use in common forest engineering geomatic applications

The role of strategic planning in the management of fire-prone western Oregon forests for maximizing terrestrial carbon stocks over a 100-year horizon

Forest biomass estimation with hemispherical photography for multiple forest types and various atmospheric conditions

Thinning aged Douglas-fir : an analysis of mobilization costs and a log bucking strategy for revenue improvement

Economic modeling of tropical deforestation in Antioquia (Colombia), 1980-2000 : an analysis at a semi-fine scale with spatially explicit data

Radiative forcing and forest climate policy

Optimizing the primary forest products supply chain : a multi-objective heuristic approach

Evaluation of a prototype NIR system for Douglas-fir wood density estimation

In-forest log segregation based on acoustic measurement of wood stiffness

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