ABSTRACT

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

chapter 1|2 pages

Introduction and terminology

chapter 6|38 pages

Forest Inventory: advanced topics

chapter 7|12 pages

Geostatistics

chapter 8|8 pages

Case Study

chapter 10|8 pages

The Swiss National Forest Inventory

chapter 11|10 pages

Estimating change and growth

chapter 12|16 pages

Transect-Sampling