1. Liz LaPoint RMT December 2013

2. There are several advantages to having FIA data in Microsoft Access©:  Archiving – data does not change  Availability – data is always available  Transparency – data and programs in one place  Scalability and flexibility – opportunity to add data and programs to the database

3. FIA’s Data and Tools Page

8. Access db has many objects – tables, Queries, forms

10. EVALIDator Reports

11. Crown class code = 2 or 3 Dominant or Co-dominant and tree.cclcd in (2,3)

12.  Add a State’s FIADB tables  Delete data in tables  Load FIADB reference tables  Area change estimates  Ratio of Means – volume/acre, growth/removals etc.

18.  Which evaluation do you want? Use the EVALID to select the plots of interest from POP_PLOT_STRATUM_ASSGN

24.  Design View of COND table  Add new Field – ME_TYPE as a number field

25. Update field: ME_type Table: COND Update to: ME_type from the imported table

26. PRC = pages, rows, columns

29.  Expand Modules to find Functions module – double click to open

30. Copy a public function and edit it for your attribute

31. Attribute we added is available for Pages, Rows and Columns

35. Patrick Miles pmiles@fs.fed.us 651-649-5146 Liz LaPoint elapoint@fs.fed.us 603-868-7675