Thinning inventory technique and its application in forest resource inventory

Abstract

A brief overview of the system of forest inventory in China and its problems existed is given. Forest planning requires information about the current state of the forest resource. However, generally speaking, the information collected in a periodic inventory may become obsolete already after the first thinning following. Therefore, in order to solve the problem, theory skeleton of thinning inventory technique and its approach in forest inventory, is presented in this paper, with an emphasis on the research and study developing currently thinning inventory.

Keywords

Forest inventory / Thinning inventory / Inventory system

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