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Forest Inventory: Assessing Forest Resources for Sustaining Their Management – Contribution of Geospatial Technologies

Forest Inventory: Assessing Forest Resources for Sustaining Their Management – Contribution of Geospatial Technologies
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Author(s): Said Lahssini (National School of Forestry Engineering, Morocco), Loubna El Mansouri (Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, Morocco), Hicham Mharzi Alaoui (High Commission for Water and Forest and Combating Desertification, Morocco)and Said Moukrim (Mohammed V University, Morocco)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 20
Source title: Geospatial Technologies for Effective Land Governance
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Moha El-Ayachi (Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, Morocco)and Loubna El Mansouri (Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II, Morocco)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-5939-9.ch011

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Abstract

Forest resources management requires a variety of information related to social systems and to land and its supported resources and their dynamics (land cover, forest stocking, and growth). Such information is, by nature, spatio-temporal and scale dependent and its quality relay on costs for obtaining it. Geosciences and forest geomatics offer valuable methods for ensuring a good compromise between the quality of required information and its costs. This chapter will review and discuss the contribution of geoscience to forest and land inventory. After presentation of information needed and their acquisition methods, through traditional forest inventory, the chapter will focus on technologies aiming at forest resources characterization and assessment such as aerial photogrammetry, satellite imagery, LiDAR data.

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