An area of active interest for FRI is advanced visualization techniques. Papers were presented by FRI staff on this topic at the GIS Forum in Austin, TX, in January of this year. This preliminary work will permit detailed examinations of change in the forests of East Texas over time and visualization of these changes. When combined with forest health and productivity measurement, advanced visualization provides a powerful tool in predicting the future of the region's forests. This property, the site of the main offices of the FRI, consists of almost 40 acres of forest land representing several different ecotypes.
Several projects are underway involving landscape change detection and analysis.
These projects make use of the NALC data set. Data provide a 30-year retrospective record of land cover changes. Acquisition of these data is critical to FRI's forest health and productivity monitoring mission.