TY - BOOK ID - 210590 TI - Forest Inventory : Methodology and Applications AU - Kangas, Annika. AU - Maltamo, Matti. PY - 2006 VL - v. 10 SN - 1280461551 9786610461554 1402043813 1402043791 9048131642 PB - Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Forest mapping. KW - Forest surveys. KW - Forest inventories KW - Forest surveying KW - Forests and forestry KW - Natural resources surveys KW - Vegetation surveys KW - Forest surveys KW - Vegetation mapping KW - Surveying KW - Mapping KW - methodology KW - Models KW - Sampling KW - Végétation KW - vegetation KW - Botanical composition KW - cartography KW - case studies KW - data collection KW - Spectrometry KW - Satellites KW - Photogrammetry KW - Aerial surveying KW - Geographical information systems KW - Finland KW - Sweden KW - Germany KW - India KW - Indonesia KW - China KW - Canada KW - USA KW - Forests and forestry. KW - Statistics. KW - Forestry. KW - Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. KW - Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences. KW - Statistical analysis KW - Statistical data KW - Statistical methods KW - Statistical science KW - Mathematics KW - Econometrics KW - Forest land KW - Forest lands KW - Forest planting KW - Forest production KW - Forest sciences KW - Forestation KW - Forested lands KW - Forestland KW - Forestlands KW - Forestry KW - Forestry industry KW - Forestry sciences KW - Land, Forest KW - Lands, Forest KW - Silviculture KW - Sylviculture KW - Woodlands KW - Woods (Forests) KW - Agriculture KW - Natural resources KW - Afforestation KW - Arboriculture KW - Logging KW - Timber KW - Tree crops KW - Trees KW - vegetation. KW - Remote sensing. KW - Statistics . KW - Remote-sensing imagery KW - Remote sensing systems KW - Remote terrain sensing KW - Sensing, Remote KW - Terrain sensing, Remote KW - Aerial photogrammetry KW - Aerospace telemetry KW - Detectors KW - Space optics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:210590 AB - This book has been developed as a forest inventory textbook for students and can also serve as a handbook for practical foresters. The book is divided into four sections. The first section deals mostly with sampling issues. First, we present the basic sampling designs at a fairly non-technical mathematical level. In addition, we present some more advanced sampling issues often needed in forest inventory. Those include for instance problems with systematic sampling, and methods for sampling vegetation or rare populations. Forest inventory also includes issues that are unique to forestry, like problems in measuring sample plots in the field, or utilising sample tree measurements. These issues include highly sophisticated methodology, but we try to present these also such that forestry students can grasp the ideas behind them. Each method is presented with examples. For foresters who need more details, references are given to more advanced scientific papers and books in the fields of statistics and biometrics. Forest inventories in many countries involve much more than sampling and measurement issues. Most applications nowadays involve remote sensing technology of some sort, so that section II deals with the use of remote sensing material for this purpose. Examples of multi-phase and multi-source inventory are presented. Methods suitable for special applications, like stand-level or global-level inventory, are also presented. Section III deals with national inventories carried out in different parts of the world. Examples of forest inventory in selected countries around the world are presented. Section IV is an attempt to outline some future possibilities of forest inventory methodologies. ER -