Swiss National Forest Inventory - Methods and Models of the Fourth Assessment

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fischer, Christoph (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Traub, Berthold (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Managing Forest Ecosystems, 35
• Subjects: Forestry.; Statistics .; Environmental monitoring.; Natural resources.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis.; Natural Resources.

The Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a forest survey on national level which started in 1982 and has already reached its 5th survey cycle (NFI5). It can be characterized as a multisource and multipurpose inventory where information is mainly collected from terrestrial field surveys using per...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The Swiss NFI at a glance
• Chapter 3. Inventory design and statistics
• Chapter 4. Remote Sensing
• Chapter 5. Terrestrial inventory and interview survey
• Chapter 6. Modelling
• Chapter 7. The Swiss National Forest Inventory Data Analysis System NAFIDAS
• Chapter 8. Data Quality
• Chapter 9. Appendix
• Chapter 10. Glossary.