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== Forest Inventory Lecturenotes ==
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;Forest Inventory
;Introduction
:[[Forest inventory]]
:[[Brief history of forest inventory]]
;Forest mensuration recap
:[[Tree Definition]]
:[[Forest Definition]]
:[[Minimum crown cover]]
:[[Forest Boundary]]
:[[Species composition]]
:[[Tree diameter]]
:[[Diameter at breast height]]
:[[Caliper]]
:[[Diameter tape]]
:[[Caliper vs. diameter tape]]
:[[Why measuring upper diameters?]]
:[[Finn caliper]]
:[[Optical caliper]]
:[[The angle measurement principle]]
:[[Tree height]]
:[[The trigonometric principle]]
:[[The geometric principle]]
:[[Distance to tree]]
:[[Measuring slope]]
:[[Bark thickness]]
:[[Crown attributes]]
:[[Diameter increment]]
:[[Quality]]
:[[Tree sociological position]]
:[[Stem shape]]
:[[Stem volume]]
:[[Linear regression]]
:[[Height curve]]
:[[Volume functions]]
:[[Biomass functions and carbon estimation]]
;Short introduction to measuring devices
:[[Dendrometer]]
:[[Relascope]]
:[[Blume-Leiss]]
:[[Haga]]
:[[Vertex]]
:[[Measurement with the relascope]]
;Introduction to sampling
:[[Population]]
:[[Statistical sampling]]
:[[Sampling design and plot design]]
:[[Statistical estimations]]
:[[Accuracy and precision]]
:[[Sample size]]
:[[Sampling intensity vs. sample size]]
;Plot design
:[[Plot design]]
:[[Fixed area plots]]
:[[Fixed area plots at the stand boundary]]
:[[Bitterlich sampling]]
:[[Distance based plots]]
:[[Comparison of plot designs]]
:[[Non-response]]
:[[Approaches to populations of sample plots]]
;Sampling techniques
:[[Simple random sampling]]
:[[Random selection]]
:[[Simple random sampling examples]]
:[[Stratified sampling]]
:[[Stratified sampling examples]]
:[[Cluster sampling]]
:[[Cluster sampling examples]]
:[[Adaptive cluster sampling]]
:[[Adaptive cluster sampling examples]]
:[[Systematic sampling]]
:[[Variance issue in systematic sampling]]
:[[Pair difference technique example]]
:[[Ratio estimator]]
:[[Ratio estimator sampling examples]]
:[[Double sampling]]
:[[Double sampling with ratio or regression estimator]]
:[[Double sampling with ratio or regression estimator examples]]
:[[Line sampling]]
:[[Sampling with unequal selection probabilities]]
:[[List sampling]]
:[[Hansen-Hurwitz estimator]]
:[[Hansen-Hurwitz estimator examples]]
:[[Horvitz-Thompson estimator]]
:[[Importance sampling]]
:[[Randomized branch sampling]]
;Some specific estimation issues
:[[Estimating forest area]]
:[[Estimating number of species]]
:[[Estimating the length of the forest edge]]
:[[Estimation on changes]]
;Planning a forest inventory
:[[Planning a forest inventory]]
;Glossary
:[[Forest Inventory Glossary]]

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