15th Southern Forestry and Natural Resource 

Management GIS Conference


Athens, Georgia

December 8-9, 2025

1996

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Arthaud, G.J., and R.R. Chowdhury. Factors affecting forest land use change in Macon County, North Carolina


Avila, R.A., et. al. Spatial variation in conifer foliar nutrient concentrations


Baker, R.D., and D. Decker. Creating statewide digital base map: the Texas Orthoimagery Program (TOP)


Barker, G.R. 1, 2, 3 GIS! Are you ready?


Barker, G.M. III. Wildfire and Permit Tracking System (WAPTS)


Barker, K.R. Urban Forestry Inventory System (UFIS); A companion end user interface to complex GIS analyses


Blackard, J.A., and D.J. Dean. Evaluating integrated artificial neural network and GIS techniques for predicting likely vegetative cover types


Campbell, J., et. al. Fire growth modeling in an integrated GIS environment


Clark, R.L. An overview of developments in precision farming systems


Davis, L.S., and D.P. Angelides. Spatial analysis for strategic forest planning: Two large scale California instustrial applications using the VESTRA EP(x)TM


Dean, D.J. Finding minimum-cost routes for access roads to single and multiple harvest sites


Dean, D.J. Timber harvest scheduling using linked GIS and operations research techniques: Current status and future developments


Dean, D.J., and D.B. Pool. Optimizing wildfire mitigation efforts using risk-based GIS


Eberly, C.W., and G.J. Arthaud. Effect of corridor width on breeding bird communities in southern bottomland hardwood forests


Erickson, L. Cartography for forest management


Fehringer, J., et. al. Regional geographic database development supporting the Southern Appalachian Assessment


Frye, C. Real-time digital forestry data for mobile computing


Gardiner, E., and G.J. Arthaud. Spatial variability assessment of the USDA Forest Service FIA data


Green, K., et. al. Automated change detection using remotely sensed data


Harvey, W., and D.J. Dean. Computer aided visualization of proposed road networks using GIS and neural networks


Hepp, T.E. An overview of TVA StandFinder


Landrum, V., et. al. Timber harvest scheduling with adjacency constraints: Using Arc/Info to make FORPLAN realistic


Lau, J.A. The integration of visualisation, spatial, and operation research techniques into a single forest planning system


Lipscomb, D.J., and T.M. Williams. A technique for using PC-Arc/Info GIS to determine red cockaded woodpecker foraging areas on private lands


Liu, R., and J.A. Scrivani. An integration of GIS and Forest Inventory Analysis (FIA) data for forest land use assessment in Virginia


Lizarraga, A.C., and D.J. Dean. Predicting and modeling aesthetic quality of forests as a function of distances from clearcuts


Keefer, B.J., et. al. Integrating GIS with spatially constrained harvest scheduling


Malchano, M.D., and W.R. Hooten. Using a personal digital assistant as a forestry data recorder


McDill, M.E., et. al. Simulating timber supply by optimizing forest management and product transportation with DTRAN and GISTRAN


McNulty, S.G., and W.T. Swank. The use of modeling and GIS in forest ecosystem management: Two case studies


Mitchell, J.T., and H.A. Devine. GIS as the basis of an urban vegetation managment plan


Murray, S., et. al. A spatial event system for a forest resource GIS


Neihardt, C.L., et. al. Watershed monitoring at the landscape level through subpixel image processing


Oderwald, R.G., and B.A. Boucher. Confidence intervals for acreage from GPS-based locations


Odom, R.H. Jr. Developing a forest land classification system from digital elevation models


Prisley, S.P. Positioning a forest industry GIS to meet the challenges of the 21st Century


Shaw, J.D. Using GIS to delineate interfluves as landscape management units in the North Carolina Sandhills


Strydom, H. The selection of permanent sample plots using an automated stratification procedure on a desktop GIS


Sun, G., et. al. GIS applications in studying environmental effects of forest harvesting


Unger, D.R., and J.J. Ulliman. Using Landsat Thematic Mapper thermal infrared data to map relative temperature zones within the University of Idaho Experimental Forest


Valavanis, V.D., et. al. A GIS user interface to multidisciplinary research data


van Blaricom, D., and F.T. Lloyd. Estimation of loblolly land cover by subpixel classification of Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery


Weinstein, M., et. al. Designs for examining wild turkey/forest habitat relationships using GIS technology


White, T.H. Jr, et. al. Logging for bears: GIS-based black bear habitat management on commercial forest lands in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley


Williams, T.M., and D.J. Lipscomb. Incorporating historical aerial photography into a rectified GIS forest inventory system