Overview
- Includes issues not dealt with in classical textbooks of forest inventory
- Basic design-based formulas for assessing accuracy of systematic sampling method do not exist
- Methodology for efficiently utilising information from sample trees in calculating plots results is presented
- Utilisation of remote sensing material in inventory context is included
- Inventory of vegetation is included as a new subject area
Part of the book series: Managing Forest Ecosystems (MAFE, volume 10)
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About this book
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
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theory
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Applications
Reviews
From the reviews:
“This book achieving its aim to serve as an academic textbook and as a practical manual … . the mix of useful information and impediments in the book recommends it as textbook and brain-trainer to students at EU universities. It gives an interesting overview over the complexities, problems and impressive achievements of forest inventory in Finland and is a welcome mental fitness trainer for inquisitive, integrating, coordinating and logical thinking, which I rather enjoyed.” (Eberhard F. Bruenig, International Forestry Review, Vol. 11 (4), 2009)
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Forest Inventory
Book Subtitle: Methodology and Applications
Editors: Annika Kangas, Matti Maltamo
Series Title: Managing Forest Ecosystems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4381-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4379-6Published: 16 January 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-3164-8Published: 10 July 2009
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4381-9Published: 19 February 2006
Series ISSN: 1568-1319
Series E-ISSN: 2352-3956
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 362
Topics: Forestry, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences