A systematic distortion resulting from faulty measurement procedures, instrumental errors, or incorrect sampling method
What is Bais?
A tool that measures the diameter of a tree
What is a Dendrometer?
Which system of calculateding BdFt is the most accurate?
What is International ?
How do you determine the radius of a plot?
What is 3.16 r^2
How far away do you hold an angle gage from your face?
What is 25"
Refers to the closeness of the measurement to the true value
What is Accuracy ?
A tool that measures the height of a tree
What is a Hypsometer?
Which system of calculateding BdFt is the least accurate?
What is Doyle ?
What is the diameter of a ⅕ ac plot
What is 52 feet ?
What does BAF stand for?
What is Basal Area Factor?
Refers to the degree of agreement or lack or variation in a series of measurements. In other words consistently getting the same results
What is Precision?
This tool is used to measure the total height of a tree and is based off of Trigonometry
What is a Clinometer?
((D-4)/4)^2 X L is the formula for what?
What is Doyle?
What is the diameter of a 1/20 ac plot
What is 26 feet?
What is the most common BAF in the Eastern United States?
What is 10 BAF
Measures the displacement of water
What is a Xylometer?
This tool is used to measure the merchantable height of a tree
What is a Merritt Hypsometer?
Name one pro and one con of using the Doyle BdFt Scale
As a buyer you come ahead on Doyle if you buy small timber but as a seller if you buy small timbe you come out behind
What tally system do Foresters use to count trees within a plot?
What is the Dot Tally System?
Two-part question
A. PAF stands for what?
B. What is the PAF for a 10 BAF Prism
A. Plot Area Factor
B. 2.75
Measuring dbh at 3.5 instead of 4.5 ft above the ground is an example of what?
What is Bais?
This tool can double as a hypsometer and a dendrometer, commonly used to measure dob@17.3 ft.
What is a Relaskope?
A 22" White Oak log would be how many BdFt in the Doyle scale?
What is 324?
Out of the cruising system we learned about which is the most accurate?
What is 100% Cruise
When conducing a Prism cruise with a 10 BAF Prism you find 22" White Oak 65 feet away from your plot center. Is is in or out?
What is Out?