Volume estimation of lopped trees
Volume estimation of lopped trees
Muhammad Afzal1, S. M. Hafeez2 and Aqeela M. Akhter3
ABSTRACT
A study was conducted along the 5/R distributor, Haroonabad where trees of shisham (Dalbergia sissoo) and kikar (Acacia nilotica) were heavily lopped. The study revealed that total volume including timber and small wood of shisham tree with the Quarter Girth formula (Field practice) came to be 60% on an average of the Local Volume Table figure. But the total volume of the same tree with the Cylindrical formula came to be 71% of the Local Volume Table figure. Along the same distributary, total volume including timber and small wood of a kikar tree with the Quarter Girth formula came to be 45% on an average of the Local Volume Table figure while this volume came to be 58% of the Local Volume Table figure when calculated with the Cylindrical formula. Hence, the average lopping loss estimated in case of shisham was 29% while the figure reached to 42% in case of kikar.
Keywords: Volume estimation, Dalbergia sissoo, Acacia nilotica.
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June 2004
Vol. 54, Iss. 2
