1. FIA Forest Inventory Analysis Plots in forests over the US
Coordinates “fuzzed” at 1km
Tree species and characteristics
Resampled every decade
FIA database:
Downloadable by state
CSV files or MS-Access
“CN” for primary keys
Includes complete database dictionary!

2. Maps for Reports
Example report map from Paul Sereno’s Cluster lab

3. MS-Access Part of MS-Office professional Relational database
No concurrent access
No spatial extensions
Has some unique characteristics
Brackets on field names: [Field1]
“Easy to Use” wizards for queries
Can get to SQL statements behind the wizards

4. Query Wizards

5. Select Tables and Fields

6. Missing Relationships

7. FIA Relationships

9. Query Options

10. Add Tables

11. Add Tables (con’t)

13. Adding Joins
Drag to Join Tables

14. SQL View SELECT PLOT.[CN] FROM
(PLOT INNER JOIN TREE ON PLOT.CN = TREE.PLT_CN)
INNER JOIN REF_SPECIES ON TREE.SPCD = REF_SPECIES.SPCD;

15. Add Field to Select

16. Select the field

17. Final Query – Wizard View

18. Datasheet View

19. SQL View

20. Sorting

21. Filtering

22. MS-Access Access uses “*” for a string wildcard
Fieldnames are in brackets (sometimes)
First “INNER JOIN” must be in parenthesis

23. Final Query
SELECT PLOT.[CN], PLOT.LAT, PLOT.LON, REF_SPECIES.COMMON_NAME, TREE.HT FROM (PLOT INNER JOIN TREE ON PLOT.CN = TREE.PLT_CN) INNER JOIN REF_SPECIES ON TREE.SPCD = REF_SPECIES.SPCD WHERE (((REF_SPECIES.COMMON_NAME) Like 'Doug*') AND ((TREE.HT)>200)) ORDER BY TREE.HT DESC;

24. Export Data