Filters Tab - Help
Data can be filtered to include only the variables of interest, where you can specify stand size, stand origin, stand age class, forest type or productivity, ownership, and administrative forest code (e.g. to select plots from a national forest). These filters are positive in the sense that they will retrieve only the data that you select.
Here you see each filter displayed as a box titled with “user friendly name = the database column name” followed by a list of available variables(no database name in COLE Lite). You can find information about each database column name in the FIA Database Documentation. Navigate to the FIA's Index of Column Names to decipher the column names and then cross reference the appropriate table for a thorough explanation of each field.
To activate a filter, check the box (no box to check with COLE Lite). Choose an element from the filter list. To select/deselect multiple elements of a filter list, hold the Control key down while left clicking the element.
Filter status is displayed at the top of the output window. A
default filter ensures that only data from Forestland are included in
analyses. This filter cannot be deactivated.
Recent Human Disturbance - Disturbed by humans within the last 5 years for a new plot, or since the last measurement for a remeasured plot. This includes silvicultural treatments and any human disturbance that effects at least 25% of the trees. This is derived from other codes available in the FIADB.
Ecological Section - For filtering by ecological sections. For more information on this, go here and download the pdf section descriptions.
Note: it is possible to select so many filters that all data will be eliminated.
Example (continued): If you wanted to investigate live tree carbon by county only for the Eastern White Pine forest type:
All users: To create a pdf report, click on the Pdf Report Tab. With COLE Lite, select 1605b report analysis option.
Advanced Users mode only: