UFORE

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UFORE

• Analysis and reporting

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Analysis I

• Basic
• Fundamental analyses, e.g.
• Species, DBH class distributions
• Total pollution removal
• Net annual C storage/sequestration by DBH class
• Raw tabular output
• 25 text files (with .out/.prn extension)
• Tables, list in Manual
• View as text files

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Analysis II

• Advanced
• UFORE code capable of complex analyses
• E.g.
• Carbon sequestration by DBH class by landuse
• Pollution removal by condition by DBH class
• Primarily for researchers

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Analysis III

• Future
• Will be carried out in desktop app
• 12 most useful analyses
• Automatically executed
• Viewing options
• Advanced analyses at users command

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Reporting I

• Former detailed
• E.g., Brooklyn (2002)
• Online http//purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS64575
• Conceived as a technical scientific report
• Methods
• Results
• Discussion
• 68pp of tables
• Very time-consuming work

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Reporting II

• Current basic
• Those 25 files, again
• Tables in NotePad
• Hard to work with
• Screen capture works sometimes
• Charts
• Import raw output into spreadsheet
• Fiddle with format
• Use spreadsheets graphing function

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Reporting III

• Current enhanced
• Texas FS report
• Pete Smith et al
• Good design
• Good web sense
• http//www.houstonregionalforest.org/Report/
• Minneapolis report
• Dave Nowak et al (in press)
• Good design
• Good presentation text

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Reporting IV

• Future automatic report writer
• Component of desktop app
• Model Indiana UFORE report (2004)
• http//plone.urbanforestrysouth.org/Resources/Libr
  ary/TTResource.2004-12-09.2714/at_download/file
• Style, graphic choices
• In development at this point

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