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Blending theory and practice, this text offers a thorough introduction to a wide range of methods for collecting, analyzing, and presenting the information required for woodlands management. This thoroughly updated edition includes expanded coverage of inventory using sampling with varying probabilities and new material on forest surveying, other mensurative considerations, and aerial photographs in forest inventory.
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The new, revised edition of the standard volume on forest measurement
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The updated edition of this long-standing classic, Forest Mensuration, Fourth Edition, provides new, complete coverage of current measurement practices and technological applications that expand the role of forest mensuration to include monitoring forest resources. This integrated approach takes into account all the resources of a forest, including such nontimber vegetation parameters as regeneration, lesser vegetation, woody detritus, and carbon.
Providing solid working knowledge of all concepts and methods, along with guidance for further study, featured material includes:
- Applications of personal computers, global positioning, and GIS
- Key concepts of tree-stand parameters and principles of measurement
- Fundamental concepts of sampling methods
- English and metric units
Forest Mensuration, Fourth Edition, is a valuable resource for students in forestry and forestry-related studies.
BERTRAM HUSCH, PhD, is Forestry Consultant at INFORA Estudios Ltda. in Santiago, Chile, and former professor of forestry at the University of New Hampshire.
THOMAS W. BEERS, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue University.
JOHN A. KERSHAW, JR., PhD, is Professor of Forest Mensuration in the Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management at the University of New Brunswick in Canada.
THOMAS W. BEERS, PhD, is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources at Purdue University.
JOHN A. KERSHAW, JR., PhD, is Professor of Forest Mensuration in the Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management at the University of New Brunswick in Canada.
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- PublisherWiley
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0471044237
- ISBN 13 9780471044239
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number3
- Number of pages402
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