The course is devided in three parts:
(1) Introduction to forest inventories, statistical methods, technics and instruments.
(2) Introduction to remote sensing.
(3) Practical activities in the fields.
Corona P 2000. Introduzione al rilevamento delle risorse forestali CUSL Firenze. ISBN 978-8880210986
Gasparini P. & Tabacchi G. (a cura di) 2011. L'Inventario Nazionale delle Foreste e dei Serbatoi Forestali di Carbonio ?Edagricole 653pp. ISBN 978-88-506-5394-2
Brivio P.A., Lechi G., Zilioli E. 2006. Principi e metodi di telerilevamento. CittàStudi, pp. 538. ISBN 978-8825172935
Kohl M. et al 2006. sampling methods, remote sensing and GIS multiresource inventories. Springler.
Kangas & Maltamo 2008 Forest inventory Springler.
Learning Objectives
Knolewdge acquired: Forest resource inventory and monitoring ; Remote sensing ; Classification techniques.
Competence acquired:
Sampling strategies and methods; Classification techniques for territorial units; Active and passive remote sensing systems.
Skills acquired (at the end of the course):
Selection of the most appropriate sampling method; sample size, estimate of the accuracy, sampling schemes (areal and linear) on GIS software. Classifications of multispectral remote sensing images.
Prerequisites
Courses to be used as requirements (required and/or recommended):
Courses required: none
Courses recommended: GIS, statistics, forest mensuration
Teaching Methods
CFU: 6
Total hours of the course (including the time spent in attending lectures, seminars, private study, examinations, etc...): 150
Hours reserved to private study and other indivual formative activities: 98
Contact hours for: Lectures (hours): 33
Contact hours for: Laboratory (hours): 0
Contact hours for: Laboratory-field/practice (hours): 13
Seminars (hours): 6
Stages: 0
Intermediate examinations: 0
Further information
Frequency to lectures, practice and lab: highly recommended.
Teaching tools: Statistics in Microsoft Excel, GIS software, GPS
Type of Assessment
Written and oral for evaluating the theoretical knowledge and the result of the field work
Course program
Credit 1: Introduction to survey sampling of forest and environmental resources. Inventories and environmental monitoring. Historical evolution and presentation of inventories in Italy and abroad.
The National Forest Inventory.
Credit 2: Phases and procedures for planning a statistically sound sampling. Staistics and estimators.
Credit 3: Methods of inventory used in Italy. Recall of dendrometry and biometrics. Integration of the phase of relief on the ground with the sampling phase. Exemplification for detection of forest variables.
Credit 4: Integration of 'ground truth' data (sampling) with information derived from remote sensing or geographic information systems and GNSS. Introduction to spatial analysis. Examples for the detection of forest variables.
Credit 5: Exercises and lectures in the field
Credit 6: Exercises and lectures in the field