Measuring Standing Sample Trees with a Dendrometer in Regrowth Forests of Southern Tasmania

SUMMARY The dendrometer is described and a note on theory and conversion formulae given. A procedure is outlined for measuring over-bark diameters of standing eucalypt sample trees with the dendrometer, which is suited to the sample tree method employed by the Tasmanian Forestry Commission, as well as the general forest conditions encountered. Where a large number of sample trees is required to be measured, a short computer programme can be written to convert instrument readings directly into data which can be plotted as a sample tree graph.