Forest Inventory

Introduction to forest inventories, sampling theory, main sampling statistics, types and demarcation of sampling units, required precision and sampling error limit, sampling intensity as a function of mean, variance and error limit, sampling intensity as a function of costs and available resources, sampling methods, fixed area and variable area, sampling systems, without and with restrictions, simple and stratified random sampling, systematic sampling, cluster sampling, multi-stage sampling, forest monitoring, sampling processes in continuous forest inventories, example of a continuous forest inventory with partial repetition, planning forest inventories, preparing a forest inventory report.