• Growing stock monitoring by European National Forest Inventories: Historical origins, current methods and harmonisation 

      Gschwantner, Thomas; Alberdi, Iciar; Bauwens, Sébastien; Bender, Susann; Borota, Dragan; Bosela, Michal; Bouriaud, Olivier; Breidenbach, Johannes; Donis, Jānis; Fischer, Christoph; Gasparini, Patrizia; Heffernan, Luke; Hervé, Jean-Christophe; Kolozs, László; Korhonen, Kari T.; Koutsias, Nikos; Kovácsevics, Pál; Kučera, Miloš; Kulbokas, Gintaras; Kuliešis, Andrius; Lanz, Adrian; Lejeune, Philippe; Lind, Torgny; Marin, Gheorghe; Morneau, François; Nord-Larsen, Thomas; Nunes, Leónia; Pantić, Damjan; Redmond, John; Rego, Francisco C.; Riedel, Thomas; Šebeň, Vladimír; Sims, Allan; Skudnik, Mitja; Tomter, Stein Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-12-12)
      Wood resources have been essential for human welfare throughout history. Also nowadays, the volume of growing stock (GS) is considered one of the most important forest attributes monitored by National Forest Inventories ...
    • Harmonisation of stem volume estimates in European National Forest Inventories 

      Gschwantner, Thomas; Alberdi, Iciar; Balázs, András; Bauwens, Sébastien; Bender, Susann; Borota, Dragan; Bosela, Michal; Bouriaud, Olivier; Cañellas, Isabel; Donis, Jānis; Freudenschuß, Alexandra; Hervé, Jean-Christophe; Hladnik, David; Jansons, Jurģis; Kolozs, László; Korhonen, Kari T.; Kucera, Milos; Kulbokas, Gintaras; Kuliešis, Andrius; Lanz, Adrian; Lejeune, Philippe; Lind, Torgny; Marin, Gheorghe; Morneau, François; Nagy, Dóra; Nord-Larsen, Thomas; Nunes, Leónia; Pantić, Damjan; Paulo, Joana A.; Pikula, Tomas; Redmond, John; Rego, Francisco Castro; Riedel, Thomas; Saint-André, Laurent; Šebeň, Vladimír; Sims, Allan; Skudnik, Mitja; Solti, György; Tomter, Stein Michael; Twomey, Mark; Westerlund, Bertil; Zell, Jürgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-28)
      Key message Volume predictions of sample trees are basic inputs for essential National Forest Inventory (NFI) estimates. The predicted volumes are rarely comparable among European NFIs because of country-specific dbh-thresholds ...
    • Harvested area did not increase abruptly—how advancements in satellite-based mapping led to erroneous conclusions 

      Breidenbach, Johannes; Ellison, David; Petersson, Hans; Korhonen, Kari T.; Henttonen, Helena M.; Wallerman, Jörgen; Fridman, Jonas; Gobakken, Terje; Astrup, Rasmus Andreas; Næsset, Erik (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-02-22)
      Key message: Using satellite-based maps, Ceccherini et al. (Nature 583:72-77, 2020) report abruptly increasing harvested area estimates in several EU countries beginning in 2015. Using more than 120,000 National Forest ...
    • Remote sensing and forest inventories in Nordic countries - roadmap for the future 

      Kangas, Annika; Astrup, Rasmus Andreas; Breidenbach, Johannes; Fridman, Jonas; Gobakken, Terje; Korhonen, Kari T.; Maltamo, Matti; Nilsson, Mats; Nord-Larsen, Thomas; Næsset, Erik; Olsson, Håkan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-18)
      The Nordic countries have long traditions in forest inventory and remote sensing (RS). In sample-based national forest inventories (NFIs), utilization of aerial photographs started during the 1960s, satellite images during ...