Understanding Forestry Through Pictures – A Journey of Graphics, Pictures, Visualizations, and Graphics…

Computer graphics and visualizations are powerful tools to help understand forests. This chapter highlights useful tools developed and used over the author’s career as a quantitative silviculturist to better understand and communicate the products available from forests and how those change in space and time. The tools range from statistical graphics, density management diagrams, stand and landscape visualization, LiDAR, and photography.