Forest Mensuration

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Introduction

   Pages 1-4

3. Statistical Prerequisites

   Pages 5-31

4. Instruments

   Pages 33-62

5. Single-Tree Measurements

   Pages 63-93

6. Measurement Of Stands

   Pages 95-147

7. Taper Tables And Functions

   Pages 149-161

8. Tree Volume Tables And Equations

   Pages 163-181

9. Tree And Stand Biomass

   Pages 183-199

10. Growth And Yield

    Pages 201-227

11. Sampling For Forest Inventories

    Pages 229-315

12. Remote Sensing In Forest Mensuration

    Pages 317-345

13. Back Matter

    Pages 347-383

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Forest mensuration is one of the most fundamental disciplines within forest and related sciences. It deals with the measurement of trees and stands and the analysis of the resultant information. During the early days of sustained forest management simple measurement and estimation methods and with the analysis of inventory and research data were available. The middle of last c- tury, however, witnessed a worldwide increase in the need for more quan- tative information about trees and stands. This generated the need for more sophisticated methods to obtain and analyze forest data. This development was followed by a phenomenal explosion of information. During the past decades there has been fruitful cooperation between the Institute of Forest Inventory and Forest Growth, formerly “Institute of Forest Management and Forest Yield Sciences” of the University of Gottingen, ¨ Germany and the Faculty of Forestry of the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. This book is one of the results of this fruitful cooperation between these institutions.

• Forest inventory
• Forest mensuration
• Forestry research
• Forests and tree plantations management
• forest
• Forestry Management

• Somerset West, South Africa

  Anthonie van Laar

• Universität Göttingen, Germany

  Alparslan Akça

ANTHONIE VAN LAAR was born in the Netherlands in 1923 and studied forest science at the University and Research Centre Wageningen between 1941 and 1949. In 1958 he emigrated to South Africa and obtained the D.Sc.degree in Forest Science at the University of Stellenbosch (1961) and thereafter Dr.oec.pub (1973) and Dr.hab. (1979) at the University of Münich. The theses dealt with forest biometry and growth modeling. Since his retirement in 1988 the author continued his involvement in these subjects, more particularly in growth models for Eucalyptus grandis.

ALPARSLAN AKCA (born 1936) studied forestry at the University of Istanbul an Freiburg i. Br. He received his doctorate in Forestry at the University of Freiburg on identification of land use classes and forest types by means of microdensitometer and discriminant analyses in 1970 and his habilitations in photogrammetry and geodesy at the University of Istanbul in 1976 and in forest inventory and forest management at the University of Göttingen in 1981. He is Professor for Forest Management, Forest Inventory and Remote sensing at the University of Göttingen and retired 2001. His main research interest are forest mensuration. Forest inventory and remote sensing in forestry.

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