Forest Resources Inventory, Monitoring, and Assessment
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Inventory, Modeling and Remote Sensing".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2026 | Viewed by 709
Special Issue Editor
Interests: forest resources inventory and monitoring; forestry modeling; statistics; sampling; climate change
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Dear Colleagues,
Forest resources inventory, monitoring, and assessment are important foundations for scientific forest management, planning implementation assessment, and reasonable decision-making. National forest inventory (NFI) mainly serves macro forestry decision-making, forestry development planning, and global forest resource assessment, while forest management inventory (FMI) mainly serves scientific forest management and sustainable development. Integrated monitoring that combines NFI and FMI can meet the needs of information on forest resources at different levels such as global, regional, national and local, and should become part of the future development of forest resource inventory and monitoring. With the implementation of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality strategies, forest biomass and forest carbon storage have increasingly become as extremely important factors as forest stock volume in forest resource inventory and monitoring. In addition, the integrated application of traditional technologies, such as measuring, sampling, and modeling, with modern technologies, such as remote sensing, global positioning, geographic information systems, and AI technology, would facilitate the enhanced efficiency and quality of forest resource inventory, monitoring, and assessment. The comprehensive monitoring of various natural resources such as forests, grasslands, and wetlands is set to become a future development trend.
Prof. Dr. Weisheng Zeng
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- national forest inventory
- forest management inventory
- integrated monitoring
- biomass and carbon monitoring
- remote sensing application
- ecosystem services assessment
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