Forest Inventory

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2009:

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The subject gives quantitative understanding of the role of inventory (forest and tree measurement and assessment) in planning the management of native and plantation forest resources. It includes planning and execution of a forest assessment, and processing of assessment data to a form suitable for input into forest management. Content includes:

• the importance of forest assessment, and the role of inventories in native forest and plantation resource planning for both wood and non-wood values;

• the use of standard equipment to estimate tree and stand parameters such as diameter, basal area, height, standing volume, bark and crown, stem geometry, stem analysis and defects;

• estimation of timber yields, and the effect of site productivity and stand density;

• the sources of assessment errors and their significance;

• use of remote sensing and GIS in forest inventories and project management;

• registration and rectification of maps and aerial photographs of forested areas;

• project planning, logistic, costs, and implementation issues, project management tools;

• advanced statistical techniques of design and sampling for inventory and research.

• Remote Sensing and Image Interpretation (Lilles and Kiefer)
• Geographic Information Systems: A Management Perspective (S A Aranoff)
• Principles of Geographical Information Systems for Land Resources Assessment (P A Burrough)
• Measuring Trees and Forests (M S Philip)

This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:

• Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Environments
• Bachelor of Music

You should visit learn more about breadth subjects and read the breadth requirements for your degree, and should discuss your choice with your student adviser, before deciding on your subjects.

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