Sound forest management planning requires cost-efficient approaches to optimally utilize given resources. Emphasizing the mathematical and statistical features of forest sampling to assess classical dendrometrical quantities, Sampling Techniques for Forest Inventories presents the statistical concepts and tools needed to conduct a modern forest inventory.

The book first examines design-based survey sampling and inference for finite populations, covering inclusion probabilities and the Horvitz Thompson estimator, followed by more advanced topics, including three-stage element...