Training manual on inventory of trees outside forests (TOF)

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The EC-FAO Partnership Programme on Information and Analysis for Sustainable Forest Management: Linking National and International Efforts in South Asia and Southeast Asia is designed to enhance country capacities to collect and analyze relevant data, to disseminate up-to-date information on forestry and to make this information more readily available for strategic decision-making. Thirteen countries in South and Southeast Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Lao P.D.R., Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Viet Nam) participate in the Programme. Operating under the guidance of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC) Working Group on Statistics and Information, the initiative is implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in close partnership with experts from participating countries. It draws on experience gained from similar EC-FAO efforts in Africa, and the Caribbean and Latin America and is funded by the European Commission.

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Information and Analysis for Sustainable Forest Management:
Linking National and International Efforts in South and Southeast Asia

EC-FAO PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMME (2000–2002)
Tropical Forestry Budget Line B7-6201/1B/98/0531
PROJECT GCP/RAS/173/EC

TRAINING MANUAL ON INVENTORY OF TREES OUTSIDE FORESTS (TOF)

by:

J.K. Rawat
S. Dasgupta
Rajesh Kumar
Anoop Kumar
K.V.S. Chauhan

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter I: Introduction

 Definitions and terminology

Trees outside forests – the resource to be inventoried

Classification of TOF

Justification for inventorying TOF

Brief review of previous inventories

TOF information based on remote sensing data

TOF data from other sources

Points to consider for large-area inventories


Chapter II: Methodology for TOF inventories

TOF inventory: step by step from design to implementation

Previous TOF inventories


CHAPTER III: Format for collection of field data

 TOF data collection in rural India (an example)

Organization of field work for inventorying urban TOF


CHAPTER IV: Volume tables and equations

 Volume tables

Volume equations

Preparation of volume tables

Data collection for preparation of volume tables

Volume computation


CHAPTER V : Data processing and analysis

 Estimation procedure for rural TOF

Data processing

Data processing tools


ANNEX I: Examples of field forms and instructions for their completion for rural TOF

ANNEX II: Examples of field forms and instructions for their completion for urban TOF