Advances in Forest Inventory for Sustainable Forest Management and Biodiversity Monitoring

1. New approaches for multi resource forest inventories.- Remote Sensing Technologies.- 2. Combining remote sensing and field data for deriving unbiased estimates of forest parameters over large regions.- 3. Using remote sensing and a spatial plant productivity model to assess biomass change.- 4. Estimating number of Pteridophyte and Melastomataceae species from satellite images in western Amazonian rain forests.- 5. Computation of a dynamic forest fire risk index by the use of a long-term NOAA-AVHRR NDVI data set.- 6. Testing Ikonos and Landsat 7 ETM+ potential for stand-level forest type mapping by soft supervised approaches.- 7. Use of high resolution satellite images in the forest inventory and mapping of Piemonte region (Italy).- 8. Updating forest inventory data by remote sensing or growth models to characterise maritime pine stands at the management unit level.- 9. Stratification of a forest area for multi source forest inventory by means of aerial photographs and image segmentation.- 10. Estimating forest canopy structure using helicopter-borne LIDAR measurement.- Sampling Techniques.- 11. Presence/absence sampling as a substitute for cover assessment in vegetation monitoring.- 12. A two-phase sampling strategy for forest inventories.- 13. Assessment of non-wood-goods and services by cluster sampling.- Landscape Pattern and Habitat Suitability.- 14. Describing landscape pattern by sampling methods.- 15. Habitat characterization and mapping for umbrella species - An integrated approach using satellite and field data.- 16. A multi temporal analysis of habitat suitability.- 17. Assessing forest landscape structure using geographic windows.- 18. Comparison of landscape indices under particular consideration of the geometric and geographic moving window concept.- 19. Comparative analysis of tourism influence on landscape structure in Mallorca using remote sensing and socioeconomic data since the 50s.- Information on European Forest Resources.- 20. Key-attributes for the monitoring of non-timber forest resources in Europe.- 21. Mapping forest in Europe by combining earth observation data and forest statistics.- 22. European Forest Information System - EFIS. A step towards better access to forest information.- Studies from Selected Countries and Regions.- 23. Mapping and monitoring of tree resources outside the forest in Central America.- 24. Monitoring status and condition of Australian Mediterranean-type forest ecosystems.- 25. Analysis of the cork forest of Ben Slimane (Morocco) using multi temporal images.- 26. Derivation of LAI estimates from NDVI and conventional data for the simulation of forest water fluxes.- 27. Predictive vegetation mapping in the Mediterranean context: considerations and methodological issues.- 28. Ideas and options for a national forest inventory in Turkey.- 29. Multilevel monitoring systems for cork oak (Quercus suber L.) stands in Portugal.- 30. Assessing and monitoring the status of biodiversity-related aspects in Flemish forests by use of the Flemish forest inventory data.- Conclusion.- List of Reviewers.- Editors Profiles.