Thneed Weekly on Free State Drivers

Thneed Weekly – Week 2014 – 32

Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:00:36 -0600

EUREKA!!!! Thneed Weekly returns. Back in week 2014 – 28 of Thneed Weekly we covered briefly what a D-Tape was and how the units were multiplied out to be PI units to automatically provide the user with the diameter. This week we will derive the formula to calculate basal area of a tree. Basal area is a metric that foresters use to determine stocking of an area among other things.

Thneed Weekly – Week 2014 – 31

Mon, 25 Aug 2014 00:00:45 -0600

Please check back next week when Thneed Weekly Returns with an exciting demonstration of how to derive basal area. Stay Tuned!!!

Thneed Weekly – Week 2014 – 30

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 00:00:33 -0600

Due to higher than normal work load the next few weeks of the Thneed Weekly may not have any content. Please check back later. The next post with content will be an exciting demonstration of how to derive basal area.

Thneed Weekly – Week 2014 – 29

Mon, 11 Aug 2014 00:00:03 -0600

Thneed Weekly – Week 2014 – 28

Mon, 04 Aug 2014 00:00:55 -0600

Welcome to another week of Thneed Weekly. The Penguin in charge of writing these has been super busy and is getting behind. So this week we are going simple.

Thneed Weekly – Week 2014 – 27

Mon, 28 Jul 2014 00:00:57 -0600

A short week for most here in the states it is the 4th of July. Independence Day. But there is no rest for the Penguins at FSD. This week there was a release of a minor fix to the FPS Harvest Scheduler. The fix was said to fix a syntax change in how ODBC uses SQL. But of course the penguins around here can’t leave well enough alone.

Thneed Weekly – Week 2014 – 26

Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:37 -0600

Viva California!! “go to the California coast it is beautiful and sunny…" well much like a duck the posse of Penguins from FSD that went to California were met with rain which rolled nicely off of there backs. But it wasn’t a vacation anyway. Best of all the GPS only tried to kill us once. Definite wrong turn in Albuquerque. One project was to review inventory procedures for a stratified stand based inventory.

Thneed Weekly – Week 2014 – 25

Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:00:30 -0600

Two normal weeks in a row. Must be a record. So with that the topic for the week will be forest inventories.

Thneed Weekly – Week 2014 – 24

Mon, 07 Jul 2014 00:00:48 -0600

An entire glorious week in the office!!!That said all that happened was work. Terribly exciting. In the world of forestry a new release of the Forest Projection and Planning System was released by the Forest Biometrics Research Institute. The main fix was to do with missing configuration values for species. While testing this version the Penguins around here found an obscure “problem” when compiling forest cruise data.

Thneed Weekly – Week 2014 – 23

Mon, 30 Jun 2014 00:00:31 -0600

Nelder Plot Visit…. So you ask yourself what the heck is a Nelder plot. Well instead of jumping right in to what it is take a look at one. (this is not the one visited on this trip) And of course Google has updated there images so the representation isn’t as good. NELDER, J. A. (1962). New kinds of systematic designs for spacing experiments.

Thneed Weekly - Week 2014 - 22

Mon, 23 Jun 2014 00:00:14 -0600

Not much happening around the nest this week to report since it was a short holiday week. While the penguins around here worked most called it a holiday. So this is as good a time to follow up last week with some discussion on averaging as that is another big topic. Averaging Everyone knows how to average. We all learned it in grade school.

Thneed Weekly - Week 2014 - 21

Mon, 16 Jun 2014 00:00:04 -0600

Not much happening around the nest this week to report. Call volume was down some so this is as good a time as any to do some discussion on rounding as that is a big topic of work this week. Rounding What is the bid deal right? Well the big deal is this can significantly change your answers and there are different methods of rounding that may provide the user with unexpected results.

Thneed Weekly - Week 2014 - 20

Mon, 09 Jun 2014 00:00:46 -0600

Thneed Weekly (Because everyone needs a thneed) will be a weekly comment on the goings on around the FSD Nest. FSD is involved in many projects and wants to develop many projects Thneed Weekly will be the way FSD does that. There will be a slight delay on the release of Thneed Weekly for the sake of ease of writing. This was a travel week for FSD hoping to get some projects done.