Advances in Forest Inventory for Sustainable Forest Management and Biodiversity Monitoring

ISBN-13: 9789048164660 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 441 str.

Piermaria Corona; Michael Kohl; Marco Marchetti

Opis

The increasing awareness and concern of people, researchers and decision makers for the maintenance and enhancement of goods and services provided by forest ecosystems significantly widened the scope of information needs for sustainable forest management on the task-specific, integrative and strategic level. Forest resource assessments have to provide reliable, harmonized, politically relevant, cost-efficient and intuitively visible information on the multiple functions of forests in the form of statistics, georeferenced data and thematic cartography. In this perspective, the need of reviewing and discussing improvements of forest inventory and monitoring approaches is acknowledged to cope with assessment and analysis tools required for the full understanding of forest ecosystems, from local to global scales. Only a limited amount of information can be provided by adding a set of new attributes to the list of attributes commonly used in assessing the productive function of forests and utilizing traditional survey designs. The diversity of information needs that have to be satisfied by current forest resource assessments require the adoption of new survey approaches and the extension of assessment frames from forests to landscapes. This is deemed distinctively true for the issues related to sustainable forest management and biodiversity monitoring. Within this framework, the major purpose of this volume of Kluwers "Forestry Science Series" is to give readers hands-on experiences about inventory and monitoring problems and potential by reviewing a selection of approaches, methods and tools for multi-resource forest surveys, with special reference to remote sensing, statistical sampling and spatial analyses.

Spis treści

1. New approaches for multi resource forest inventories.- Remote Sensing Technologies.- 2. Combining remote sensing and field data for deriving unbiased estimates of forest parameters over large regions.- 3. Using remote sensing and a spatial plant productivity model to assess biomass change.- 4. Estimating number of Pteridophyte and Melastomataceae species from satellite images in western Amazonian rain forests.- 5. Computation of a dynamic forest fire risk index by the use of a long-term NOAA-AVHRR NDVI data set.- 6. Testing Ikonos and Landsat 7 ETM+ potential for stand-level forest type mapping by soft supervised approaches.- 7. Use of high resolution satellite images in the forest inventory and mapping of Piemonte region (Italy).- 8. Updating forest inventory data by remote sensing or growth models to characterise maritime pine stands at the management unit level.- 9. Stratification of a forest area for multi source forest inventory by means of aerial photographs and image segmentation.- 10. Estimating forest canopy structure using helicopter-borne LIDAR measurement.- Sampling Techniques.- 11. Presence/absence sampling as a substitute for cover assessment in vegetation monitoring.- 12. A two-phase sampling strategy for forest inventories.- 13. Assessment of non-wood-goods and services by cluster sampling.- Landscape Pattern and Habitat Suitability.- 14. Describing landscape pattern by sampling methods.- 15. Habitat characterization and mapping for umbrella species — An integrated approach using satellite and field data.- 16. A multi temporal analysis of habitat suitability.- 17. Assessing forest landscape structure using geographic windows.- 18. Comparison of landscape indices under particular consideration of the geometric and geographic moving window concept.- 19. Comparative analysis of tourism influence on landscape structure in Mallorca using remote sensing and socioeconomic data since the 50s.- Information on European Forest Resources.- 20. Key-attributes for the monitoring of non-timber forest resources in Europe.- 21. Mapping forest in Europe by combining earth observation data and forest statistics.- 22. European Forest Information System – EFIS. A step towards better access to forest information.- Studies from Selected Countries and Regions.- 23. Mapping and monitoring of tree resources outside the forest in Central America.- 24. Monitoring status and condition of Australian Mediterranean-type forest ecosystems.- 25. Analysis of the cork forest of Ben Slimane (Morocco) using multi temporal images.- 26. Derivation of LAI estimates from NDVI and conventional data for the simulation of forest water fluxes.- 27. Predictive vegetation mapping in the Mediterranean context: considerations and methodological issues.- 28. Ideas and options for a national forest inventory in Turkey.- 29. Multilevel monitoring systems for cork oak (Quercus suber L.) stands in Portugal.- 30. Assessing and monitoring the status of biodiversity-related aspects in Flemish forests by use of the Flemish forest inventory data.- Conclusion.- List of Reviewers.- Editors Profiles.