Advances in Forest Inventory for Sustainable Forest Management and Biodiversity Monitoring

✍ Scribed by M. Köhl (auth.), Piermaria Corona, Michael Köhl, Marco Marchetti (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 435
• Series: Forestry Sciences 76
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Forests represent a remnant wilderness of high recreational value in the densely populated industrial societies, a threatened natural resource in some regions of the world and a renewable reservoir of essential raw materials for the wood processing industry. In June 1992 the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro initiated a world-wide process of negotiation with the aim of ensuring sustainable management, conservation and development of forest resources. Although there seems to be unanimous support for sustainable development from all quarters, there is no generally accepted set of indicators which allows comparisons to be made between a given situation and a desirable one. In a recent summary paper prepared by the FAO Forestry and Planning Division, Ljungman et al. (1999) find that forest resources continue to diminish, while being called upon to produce a greater range of goods and services and that calls for sustainable forest management will simply go unheeded if the legal, policy and administrative environment do not effectively control undesirable practices. Does the concept of sustainable forest management represent not much more than a magic formula for achieving consensus, a vague idea which makes it difficult to match action to rhetoric? The concept of sustainable forest management is likely to remain an imprecise one, but we can contribute to avoiding management practices that are clearly unsustainable.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVII
New Approaches for Multi Resource Forest Inventories....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Combining Remote Sensing and Field Data for Deriving Unbiased Estimates of Forest Parameters over Large Regions....Pages 19-32
Using Remote Sensing and a Spatial Plant Productivity Model to Assess Biomass Change....Pages 33-56
Estimating Number of Pteridophyte and Melastomataceae Species from Satellite Images in Western Amazonian Rain Forests....Pages 57-63
Computation of a Dynamic Forest Fire Risk Index by the Use of a Long-Term NOAA-AVHRR NDVI Data Set....Pages 65-70
Testing Ikonos and Landsat 7 ETM+ Potential for Stand-Level Forest Type Mapping by Soft Supervised Approaches....Pages 71-85
Use of High Resolution Satellite Images in the Forest Inventory and Mapping of Piemonte Region (Italy)....Pages 87-95
Updating Forest Inventory Data by Remote Sensing or Growth Models to Characterise Maritime Pine Stands at the Management Unit Level....Pages 97-109
Stratification of a Forest Area for Multisource Forest Inventory by Means of Aerial Photographs and Image Segmentation....Pages 111-123
Estimating Forest Canopy Structure Using Helicopter-Borne Lidar Measurement....Pages 125-134
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
Presence/Absence Sampling as a Substitute for Cover Assessment in Vegetation Monitoring....Pages 137-142
A Two-Phase Sampling Strategy for Forest Inventories....Pages 143-156
Assessment of Non-Wood-Goods and Services by Cluster Sampling....Pages 157-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Describing Landscape Pattern by Sampling Methods....Pages 175-189
Habitat Characterization and Mapping for Umbrella Species — An Integrated Approach Using Satellite and Field Data....Pages 191-204
A Multitemporal Analysis of Habitat Suitability....Pages 205-220
Assessing Forest Landscape Structure Using Geographic Windows....Pages 221-229
Comparison of Landscape Indices under Particular Consideration of the Geometric and Geographic Moving Window Concept....Pages 231-243
Comparative Analysis of Tourism Influence on Landscape Structure in Mallorca Using Remote Sensing and Socio-Economic Data Since the 50s....Pages 245-263
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Key-Attributes for the Monitoring of Non-Timber Forest Resources in Europe....Pages 267-278
Front Matter....Pages 265-265
Mapping Forest in Europe by Combining Earth Observation Data and Forest Statistics....Pages 279-294
European Forest Information System — EFIS. a Step towards Better Access to Forest Information....Pages 295-310
Front Matter....Pages 311-311
Mapping and Monitoring of Tree Resources Outside the Forest in Central America....Pages 313-323
Monitoring Status and Condition of Australian Mediterranean-Type Forest Ecosystems....Pages 325-341
Analysis of the Cork Forest of Ben Slimane (Morocco) Using Multi Temporal Images....Pages 343-351
Derivation of LAI Estimates from NDVI and Conventional Data for the Simulaton of Forest Water Fluxes....Pages 353-359
Predictive Vegetation Mapping in the Mediterranean Context: Considerations and Methodological Issues....Pages 361-374
Ideas and Options for a National Forest Inventory in Turkey....Pages 375-394
Multi Level Monitoring System for Cork Oak ( Quercus Suber L.) Stands in Portugal....Pages 395-403
Assessing and Monitoring the Status of Biodiversity-Related Aspects in Flemish Forests by Use of the Flemish Forest Inventory Data....Pages 405-430
Conclusion....Pages 431-433
Back Matter....Pages 435-441

✦ Subjects

Forestry; Forestry Management; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences; Plant Sciences