@article{914872,
      recid = {914872},
      author = {Fischer, Christoph. and Traub, Berthold.},
      title = {Swiss National Forest Inventory -- Methods and Models of  the Fourth Assessment /},
      publisher = {Springer,},
      address = {Cham :},
      pages = {1 online resource (424 pages).},
      year = {2019},
      note = {Includes index.},
      abstract = {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 permanent sample plots. In addition,  data from aerial photography, GIS and forest service  questionnaires are also included. The NFI's main objective  is to provide statistically reliable and sound figures to  stakeholders such as politicians, researchers, ecologists,  forest service, timber industry, national and international  organizations as well as to international projects such as  the Forest Resources Assessment of the United Nations. For  Switzerland, NFI results are typically reported on national  and regional level. State of the art methods are applied in  all fields of data collection which have been proven to be  of international interest and have even served as a basis  for other European NFIs. The presented methods are  applicable to any sample based forest inventory around the  globe. In 2001 the Swiss NFI published its methods for the  first time. Since then, many methodological changes and  improvements have been introduced. This book describes the  complete set of methods and revisions since NFI2. It covers  various topics ranging from inventory design and statistics  to remote sensing, field survey methods and modelling. It  also describes data quality concepts and the software  framework used for data storage, statistical analysis and  result presentation.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/914872},
}