Using survival analysis to predict the harvesting of forest stands

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Table of contents

1 Introduction 
1 Techniques and applications of growth models
2 Uncertainties in forest growth forecasts
2.1 Sources of uncertainties
2.2 Methods for estimating uncertainty
3 Objectives
4 Thesis context
4.1 Forest dynamics in Quebec
4.2 Quebec’s Forest Inventory
4.3 ARTEMIS-2009
4.4 Simulation framework
2 Estimating model- and sampling-related uncertainty in large-area growth predictions
1 Introduction
2 Material and methods
2.1 Growth model
2.2 Input dataset
2.3 Simulation framework
2.4 Hybrid estimator
3 Results & Discussion
4 Conclusions
3 Using survival analysis to predict the harvesting of forest stands in Quebec, Canada 
1 Introduction
2 Material and methods
2.1 Dataset
2.2 Statistical development
2.3 Model evaluation
3 Results
4 Discussion
4 The effect of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on the uncertainty of growth forecasts 
1 Introduction
2 Material and methods
2.1 ARTEMIS growth model
2.2 Uncertainty estimation
2.3 Study area and dataset
2.4 Forecasting
3 Results
4 Discussion
5 Conclusions
5 Discussion and Perspectives 
1 Research problems
2 Framework
3 Estimation of uncertainties in large-area growth forecasts
4 Perspectives