Field-Map Inventory Analyst (FMIA)

FMIA is a software application for evaluation of statistical forest inventories. It provides the user with easy handling and processing of databases with field data. Data can be completed, pre-processed and processed in order to obtain final statistical results and outputs. Automatically generated outputs consist of classified result tables and graphs. Optionally, the user may complement the results with methodological remarks, term definitions and comments.

FMIA covers the following tasks:

• Calculation of secondary and derived variables using predefined models and built-in functions

  E.g. calculation of height for trees that were not measured in the field, calculating tree volume using user-defined or local volume equations, etc.

• Post-stratification
• Aggregation

  Aggregating data of specific data layers and calculating descriptive statistics; e.g. summarizing deadwood logs within a plot, calculating mean log volume, sample variance, standard deviation, standard error, etc.

• Classification

  User-defined classification of continuous data values into classes; e.g. age into age classes, tree diameter into diameter classes, etc.

• Re-classification

  Re-grouping of discrete data values; e.g. tree species into species groups, etc.

• SQL updates or scripts

  Using SQL commands or user-defined scripts to create and calculate derived variables.

• Statistical data processing

  Statistical processing tasks can be defined using interactive forms and reused repeatedly. Outputs are presented in tables and charts. Each task can be supplemented by user comments, methodology descriptions and definitions.

Main advantages of using Inventory Analyst

• Easy and fast data preparation (data preprocessing)
• Calculated values are written back into the source database
• Easy definition of statistical tasks (import/export of task definitions)
• Automatic creation of printable outputs including charts
• Possibility of multilingual outputs