[Plot analysis in the dark coniferous ecosystem using GPS and GIS techniques].
It is generally difficult to survey in primary forests located on high-altitude region. However, it is convenient to identify and to recognize plots accompanied by GPS and GIS techniques, which can also display the spatial pattern of arbors precisely. Using the method of rapid-static positioning cooperated with tape-measure, it is concluded that except some points, the positioning was relatively precise, the average value of RMS was 2.84, variance was 2.96, and delta B, delta L, and delta H were 1.2, 1.2, and 4.3 m with their variances being +/- 0.6, +/- 1.1, and +/- 21.1, respectively, which could meet the needs of forestry management sufficiently. Accompanied by some other models, many ecological processes under small and even medium scale, such as the dynamics of gap succession, could also be simulated visually by GIS. Therefore, the techniques of "2S" were patent for forest ecosystem management under the fine scale, especially in the area of high altitude.
Guan
Wenbin
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Key Laboratory of Soil and Water Conservation of Forestry Bureau, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083.
Xie
Chunhua
C
Wu
Jian'an
J
Yu
Xinxiao
X
Chen
Gengwei
G
Li
Tongyang
T
D000531:Altitude; D017753:Ecosystem; D064028:Tracheophyta / Q000254:growth & development*