National Forest Inventories : pathways for common reporting

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide essential clarification regarding the definition and purpose of long-term field studies, review some of the extensive literature and discuss different approaches to collecting field data, and describe two newly established forest observational networks that serve to illustrate the scope and diversity of forest field studies.

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National Forest Inventory and forest observational studies in Spain: Applications to forest modeling

Juan Gabriel Álvarez-González, +5 more

- 15 Mar 2014 -

Forest Ecology and Management

TL;DR: In this paper, the advantages and disadvantages of Forest Observational Studies (FOS) and National Forest Inventory (NFI) data for developing forest models are discussed, and an example of synergy between FOS and NFI observations for developing dynamic growth models for intensively managed forest in the Atlantic ecoregion is presented.

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Leaf Area Index, Biomass Carbon and Growth Rate of Radiata Pine Genetic Types and Relationships with LiDAR

Peter N. Beets, +5 more

- 16 Aug 2011 -

Forests

TL;DR: Relationships between discrete-return light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data and radiata pine leaf area index (LAI), stem volume, above ground carbon, and carbon sequestration were developed using 10 plots with directly measured biomass and leaf area data, and 36 plots with modelled carbon data.

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Methods for variable selection in LiDAR-assisted forest inventories

Paolo Moser, +7 more

- 01 Jan 2017 -

Forestry

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared three methods to select predictor variables for nonlinear models of relationships between forest attributes and LiDAR metrics, two of them based on genetic algorithms (GAs) and one based on random forest (RM).

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National mapping and estimation of forest area by dominant tree species using Sentinel-2 data

Johannes Breidenbach, +7 more

- 01 Mar 2021 -

Canadian Journal of Forest Research

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used National Forest Inventory (NFI) plot data for modelling and subsequent mapping of spruce-, pine-, and deciduous-dominated forest in Norway at a 16 × 16 m ×...

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