Bridging national and reference definitions for harmonizing forest statistics

Forest Science

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 214-223

  Ståhl, Göran ^a   Cienciala, Emil ^b   Chirici, Gherardo ^c   Lanz, Adrian ^d   Vidal, Claude ^e   Winter, Susanne ^f   McRoberts, Ronald E ^g   Rondeux, Jacques ^h   Schadauer, Klemens ⁱ   Tomppo, Erkki ⁱ  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b Institute of Forest Ecosystem Research Limited   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MOLISE   (Italy)

^d SWISS FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE WSL   (Switzerland)

^e French National Forest Inventory   (France)

^f TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g US Forest Service   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

ⁱ FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Forest resource assessment; Harmonization; National forest inventory; Standardization; Statistics

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION METHODS; FOREST RESOURCE ASSESSMENTS; HARMONIZATION; HIERARCHICAL DECISION TREES; NATIONAL FOREST INVENTORIES; QUALITY OF DATA; STRUCTURED APPROACH;

DECISION TREES; ESTIMATION; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICS;

FORESTRY;

EVALUATION; FORESTRY; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; STANDARDS; STATISTICS;

EID: 84862661909     PISSN: 0015749X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5849/forsci.10-067     Document Type: Article

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