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World Series Vol. 5 - IUFRO International Guidelines for Forest Monitoring
IThe Guidelines outline a procedure to increase our ability to share plot information for research, management, inventories, and remote sensing verification. The intended users are those that conduct the collection of field data.
"The world's forests are the focus of international attention because of the many envirorunental issues being discussed today. In order to understand what is truly happening to our forest land, we need to monitor the resources to measure change and to predict change. Monitoring is the periodic observation of selected parameters for quantifuing changes over time. We often use remote sensing and permanent plots to monitor changes in the forest resource base." [...]