National Forest Inventories

Author : Erkki Tomppo,Thomas Gschwantner,Mark Lawrence,Ronald E. McRoberts
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789048132331

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National Forest Inventories by Erkki Tomppo,Thomas Gschwantner,Mark Lawrence,Ronald E. McRoberts Pdf

Forest inventories throughout the world have evolved gradually over time. The content as well as the concepts and de?nitions employed are constantly adapted to the users’ needs. Advanced inventory systems have been established in many countries within Europe, as well as outside Europe, as a result of development work spanning several decades, in some cases more than 100 years. With continuously increasing international agreements and commitments, the need for information has also grown drastically, and reporting requests have become more frequent and the content of the reports wider. Some of the agreements made at the international level have direct impacts on national economies and international decisions, e. g. , the Kyoto Protocol. Thus it is of utmost importance that the forest information supplied is collected and analysed using sound scienti?c principles and that the information from different countries is comparable. European National Forest Inventory (NFI) teams gathered in Vienna in 2003 to discuss the new challenges and the measures needed to get data users to take full advantage of existing NFIs. As a result, the European National Forest Inventory Network (ENFIN), a network of NFIs, was established. The ENFIN members decided to apply for funding for meetings and collaborative activities. COST– European Cooperation in Science and Technology - provided the necessary ?n- cial means for the realization of the program.

Author : Christoph Fischer,Berthold Traub
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030192938

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Swiss National Forest Inventory – Methods and Models of the Fourth Assessment by Christoph Fischer,Berthold Traub Pdf

The Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a forest survey on national level which started in 1982 and has already reached its 5th survey cycle (NFI5). It can be characterized as a multisource and multipurpose inventory where information is mainly collected from terrestrial field surveys using permanent sample plots. In addition, data from aerial photography, GIS and forest service questionnaires are also included. The NFI's main objective is to provide statistically reliable and sound figures to stakeholders such as politicians, researchers, ecologists, forest service, timber industry, national and international organizations as well as to international projects such as the Forest Resources Assessment of the United Nations. For Switzerland, NFI results are typically reported on national and regional level. State of the art methods are applied in all fields of data collection which have been proven to be of international interest and have even served as a basis for other European NFIs. The presented methods are applicable to any sample based forest inventory around the globe. In 2001 the Swiss NFI published its methods for the first time. Since then, many methodological changes and improvements have been introduced. This book describes the complete set of methods and revisions since NFI2. It covers various topics ranging from inventory design and statistics to remote sensing, field survey methods and modelling. It also describes data quality concepts and the software framework used for data storage, statistical analysis and result presentation.

Author : Claude Vidal,Iciar A. Alberdi,Laura Hernández Mateo,John J. Redmond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3319829610

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National Forest Inventories by Claude Vidal,Iciar A. Alberdi,Laura Hernández Mateo,John J. Redmond Pdf

The book presents the current state and good practices of national forest inventories in monitoring wood resources and demonstrates pathways for harmonisation and improved common reporting. Beyond a general overview over availability and use of wood resources in different countries, it provides a unique collection of original contributions from national forest inventory experts with in-depth descriptions of current NFI methods in assessing wood availability and wood use in European countries, and selected countries from America and Asia.The main topics are national definitions and improvements in common reporting of forests available for wood supply, stem quality and assortments, estimation of change including growth and drain, and tree resources outside forest land. The book is a must-have for everyone who is contributing to national forest inventories either methodologically or operatively, for people who want or need to understand national forest inventory provided data and information on the availability of wood resources. By providing profound knowledge it is a valuable basis for scientists involved in scenario modelling and analysing effects of climate change, as well as individuals in private organisations and public administrations promoting the sustainable use of natural resources and the potential of green economy.

Author : Erkki Tomppo,Markus Haakana,Matti Katila,Jouni Peräsaari
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402087134

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Multi-Source National Forest Inventory by Erkki Tomppo,Markus Haakana,Matti Katila,Jouni Peräsaari Pdf

Building on more than a decade of innovative research into multi-source forest inventory (MS-NFI) this book presents full details of the development, outputs and applications of the improved k-NN method. The method, which was pioneered in Finland in 1990, is rapidly becoming a world standard in forest inventory, having been adopted as standard in Finland and Sweden, and recently introduced in Austria and across the US. The book describes in detail the full MS-NFI process, and the input data used – including field data, satellite images, and digital map data, as well as coarse-scale variation of forest variables. It also presents comprehensive information on the types of outputs which can be derived, including maps and statistics, describing, for example, stock volumes and development, dominant tree species, age-class distribution, and large and small-scale variation. The book will provide an invaluable resource for those involved in forest inventory, including government departments and bodies involved in forest policy, management and monitoring, forest managers, and researchers and graduate students interested in forest inventory, modelling and analysis. It will find an additional market among those interested in Earth observation, ecology and broader areas of environmental and natural resource management. Erkki Tomppo was the winner of the 1997 Marcus Wallenberg Prize for his work on the k-NN method.

Author : Erkki Tomppo,Juha Heikkinen,Helena M. Henttonen,Antti Ihalainen,Matti Katila,Helena Mäkelä,Tarja Tuomainen,Nina Vainikainen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400716520

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Designing and Conducting a Forest Inventory - case: 9th National Forest Inventory of Finland by Erkki Tomppo,Juha Heikkinen,Helena M. Henttonen,Antti Ihalainen,Matti Katila,Helena Mäkelä,Tarja Tuomainen,Nina Vainikainen Pdf

This book demonstrates in detail all phases of the 9th National Forest Inventory of Finland (1996–2003): the planning of the sampling design, measurements, estimation methods and results. The inventory knowledge accumulated during almost one hundred years is consolidated in the book. The purpose of the numerous examples of results is to demonstrate the diversity of the estimates and content of a national forest inventory. The most recent results include the assessment of the indicators describing the biodiversity of forests. The Finnish NFI has been and is a model for many countries worldwide. The methods and results of the book are set in the international context and are applicable globally. The book provides a valuable information source for countries, institutions and researchers planning own inventories as well as modifying the existing ones, or seeking the applicable definitions and estimation methods to use in their own inventories.

Author : Annika Kangas,Matti Maltamo
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402043819

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Forest Inventory by Annika Kangas,Matti Maltamo Pdf

This book has been developed as a forest inventory textbook for students and could also serve as a handbook for practical foresters. We have set out to keep the mathematics in the book at a fairly non-technical level, and therefore, although we deal with many issues that include highly sophisticated methodology, we try to present first and foremost the ideas behind them. For foresters who need more details, references are given to more advanced scientific papers and books in the fields of statistics and biometrics. Forest inventory books deal mostly with sampling and measurement issues, as found here in section I, but since forest inventories in many countries involve much more than this, we have also included material on forestry applications. Most applications nowadays involve remote sensing technology of some sort, so that section II deals mostly with the use of remote sensing material for this purpose. Section III deals with national inventories carried out in different parts of world, and section IV is an attempt to outline some future possibilities of forest inventory methodologies. The editors, Annika Kangas Professor of Forest Mensuration and Management, Department of Forest Resource Management, University of Helsinki. Matti Maltamo Professor of Forest Mensuration, Faculty of Forestry, University of Joensuu. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Author : Claude Vidal,Iciar A. Alberdi,Laura Hernández Mateo,John J. Redmond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 845 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319440156

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National Forest Inventories by Claude Vidal,Iciar A. Alberdi,Laura Hernández Mateo,John J. Redmond Pdf

The book presents the current state and good practices of national forest inventories in monitoring wood resources and demonstrates pathways for harmonisation and improved common reporting. Beyond a general overview over availability and use of wood resources in different countries, it provides a unique collection of original contributions from national forest inventory experts with in-depth descriptions of current NFI methods in assessing wood availability and wood use in European countries, and selected countries from America and Asia.The main topics are national definitions and improvements in common reporting of forests available for wood supply, stem quality and assortments, estimation of change including growth and drain, and tree resources outside forest land. The book is a must-have for everyone who is contributing to national forest inventories either methodologically or operatively, for people who want or need to understand national forest inventory provided data and information on the availability of wood resources. By providing profound knowledge it is a valuable basis for scientists involved in scenario modelling and analysing effects of climate change, as well as individuals in private organisations and public administrations promoting the sustainable use of natural resources and the potential of green economy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : 0855385170

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National Inventory of Woodland and Trees: Woodlands of 2 hectares and over by Anonim Pdf

Author : Thomas Malone,Jingjing Liang,Edmond C. Packee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Forest surveys
ISBN : MINN:31951D02938258N

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Cooperative Alaska Forest Inventory by Thomas Malone,Jingjing Liang,Edmond C. Packee Pdf

The Cooperative Alaska Forest Inventory (CAFI) is a comprehensive database of boreal forest conditions and dynamics in Alaska. The CAFI consists of fieldgathered information from numerous permanent sample plots distributed across interior and south-central Alaska including the Kenai Peninsula. The CAFI currently has 570 permanent sample plots on 190 sites representing a wide variety of growing conditions. New plots are being added to the inventory annually. To date, over 60 percent of the permanent sample plots have been remeasured and approximately 20 percent have been remeasured three times. Repeated periodic inventories on CAFI permanent sample plots provide valuable long-term information for modeling of forest dynamics such as growth and yield. Periodic remeasurements can also be used to test and monitor large-scale environmental and climate change. This guide documents sampling and estimation procedures of CAFI v.1.0, and provides details of the database, including attribute description and summary statistics. To help researchers and land managers successfully initiate or expand a permanent sample site program in Alaska, this guide offers a comprehensive tutorial to establish, maintain, and process permanent sample plots in Alaska's boreal forests.

Author : Fritz Loetsch,Karl Eberhard Haller,F. Zöhrer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Forest surveys
ISBN : PSU:000015259554

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Forest Inventory by Fritz Loetsch,Karl Eberhard Haller,F. Zöhrer Pdf

Author : Patrizia Gasparini,Lucio Di Cosmo,Antonio Floris,Davide De Laurentis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3030986802

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Italian National Forest Inventory—Methods and Results of the Third Survey by Patrizia Gasparini,Lucio Di Cosmo,Antonio Floris,Davide De Laurentis Pdf

This open access book deals with the methods and the results of the third Italian national forest inventory (INFC2015). Arma dei Carabinieri is entrusted with the realisation of the National Forest Inventory and with the decisions about the aims of the survey and data treatment. National forest inventories produce statistically based information on forests over country areas. Such information is used either at subnational or at supranational level in a great number of spheres and processes, included possibility to depict the status of the world forests. Italy conducted its first forest inventory in 1985 and in 2001 a permanent national forest inventory was launched to have periodically updated statistics. Due to the growing concern about the environment and especially the climate change, estimating forests carbon pools was a stated main objective and it was accordingly named Italian National Inventory of Forest and Forest Carbon Pools (INFC). The book begins with a description of the general organisation, the definitions, the methods and the estimation procedures. It proceeds showing the main estimates produced by INFC2015, in tables that are given in the book chapters. The estimates are presented through texts that introduce the subject matter, explain the way the related variables were surveyed and comment on the main outcomes with the help of graphics. The estimates presented include forest area, management and production, biodiversity and protection, forest health, protective and socio-economics functions. Role of forest in the carbon balance was analysed in a specific Chapter, as this is important for its role in the climate change mitigation. The book ends providing an understanding of the current dynamics of Italian forests by comparing the estimates obtained from INFC2005 and INFC2015, the last two national surveys.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Forest health
ISBN : MINN:31951D02988399B

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The Enhanced Forest Inventory and Analysis Program--national Sampling Design and Estimation Procedures by Anonim Pdf

The Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) Program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service is in the process of moving from a system of quasi-independent, regional, periodic inventories to an enhanced program featuring greater national consistency, a complete and annual sample of each State, new reporting requirements, and integration with the ground sampling component of the Forest Health Monitoring Program. This documentation presents an overview of the conceptual design, describes the sampling frame and plot configuration, presents the estimators that form the basis of FIA's National Information Management System (NIMS), and shows how annual data are combined for analysis. It also references a number of Web-based supplementary documents that provide greater detail about some of the more obscure aspects of the sampling and estimation system, as well as examples of calculations for most of the common estimators produced by FIA.

Author : Daniel Mandallaz
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-26
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781584889779

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Sampling Techniques for Forest Inventories by Daniel Mandallaz Pdf

Sound forest management planning requires cost-efficient approaches to optimally utilize given resources. Emphasizing the mathematical and statistical features of forest sampling to assess classical dendrometrical quantities, Sampling Techniques for Forest Inventories presents the statistical concepts and tools needed to conduct a modern for

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Forest surveys
ISBN : MINN:31951D01408848R

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Forest Service Resource Inventories by Anonim Pdf

Author : Richard A. Birdsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Atmospheric carbon dioxide
ISBN : MINN:31951D02988385M

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Carbon Storage and Accumulation in United States Forest Ecosystems by Richard A. Birdsey Pdf