National Forest Inventories : pathways for common reporting

TL;DR: In this article, models of relationships among forest inventory sampling efficiency and cluster plot configuration variables inform decisions by inventory planners, however, relationships vary under different spati cation, and the relationships vary significantly under different scenarios.

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Editorial: “Forest Inventories at the European level”

Jean-Michel Leban, +2 more

- 10 Oct 2016 -

Annals of Forest Science

TL;DR: The coming age of wood, translated in French in 1951, “Demain l’âge du bois,” depicts the technical possibility and the perspective for a massive shift from fossil to renewable resources, mainly from forests, for producing with a low carbon footprint and wide spectrum of end products needed worldwide as discussed by the authors.

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Use of remotely sensed auxiliary data for improving sample-based forest inventories.

Svetlana Saarela

- 25 Sep 2015 -

Dissertationes Forestales

TL;DR: This thesis was motivated by the increasing availability of remotely sensed data, and the objectives were to investigate how this type of auxiliary data can be used for improving both the design and the estimators in sample-based surveys.

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Variables on the Sample Plot Captured by the Stereo GIS Application

Christian Ginzler

TL;DR: Guided by the Stereo GIS Application, different measurements are carried out in the aerial stereo-images in order to determine a ‘forest/non-forest’ decision.

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