The Project network consisted of (i) cooperating institutions and individuals, (ii) remote sensing lead centers of the Project, and (iii) correspondents nominated by the countries under assessment as direct contact for information exchange.
List of cooperating institutions and individuals:
Deforestation Modelling
Dr. R. Scotti, Forestry Faculty, University of Florence, Italy
Dr. O. Lindgren, Sweden
Database Management System (compilation of existing spatial/statistical data)
Dr. F. Blasco and Ms. E. Janodet, Institut de la Carte Internationale de la Végétation, France
Mr. R.M. Keogh, Coillte, Ireland (Assessment of Caribbean National Forests and Plantations)
Dr. D. Benessalah, Morocco (Country Brief for Morocco)
Mr. H.C. Thang, Forestry Department, Malaysia (Assessment of S.E. Asia)
Mr. D. Pandey, Ministry of Forests and Environment, India (Plantation Assessment)
Mr. D. Piaggesi, Italy (Assessment of East Sahel)
Mr. V. Sosa Cedillo, Inventario Nacional Forestal de Mexico, Mexico
Mr. W. Ojeda, Consultant, Peru
Mr. S. Oliveira Almeida, IBAMA, Brazil
Dr. C. Klein, University of Freiburg, Germany
Remote Sensing
| Mr. C. Justice, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA | |
| Forest Survey of India, India | |
| National Forest Inventory, Indonesia | |
| Istituto Agronomico per l'Oltremare, Italy | |
| United Nations Environment Programme-GRID, Kenya, Switzerland, Thailand | |
| Swedish Space Corporation, Sweden | |
| Royal Forestry Department, Forest Management Division, Thailand | |
| State Forest Committee (Lesprojekt), USSR | |
| University of Joensuu, Finland | |
| Mr. R. Baltaxe (retired FAO officer) | |
| Dr. U. Héllden, Department of Physical Geography, University of Lund, Sweden | |
| Earth Observation Satellite Co., USA | |
| USGS EROS Data Center, USA | |
| National Remote Sensing Agency, India | Delivery of satellite imagery |
| National Receiving Station, Indonesia | |
| Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais, Brazil | |
Special Studies including GIS
Dr. Sandra Brown, Department of Forestry, University of Illinois, USA
USDA Forest Service, Institute of Tropical Forestry, Puerto Rico
World Conservation Monitoring Centre, England
Mr. M. Comeau, Environment Canada, Canada
The Sample Survey Design
Dr. Ray Czaplewski, USDA Forest Service, USA
The following team of scientists made the review of the Sample Survey Design under the
auspices of the International Union of Forestry Research Organisations (IUFRO), Austria:
Prof. D.R. Pelz, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, Germany (Coordinator)
Prof. T. Cunia, State University of New York, USA
Dr. A. de Gier, International Institute for Aerospace Survey & Earth Sciences, Netherlands
Dr. S. Poso, University of Helsinki, Finland
Dr. G. Preto, Istituto Sperimentale Selvicoltura, Italy
Prof. B. Ranneby, Swedish University of Agricural Sciences (SUAS), Sweden
Prof. K. Rennolls, Thames Polytechnic, United Kingdom
Dr. P. Schmid-Haas, Inventaire Forestier National, Switzerland
Dr. C.T. Scott, USDA Forest Service, USA
Remote Sensing Lead Centres:
IBAMA, Brazil
Subsecretario Forestal y Regulación de Uso del Suelo, Mexico
Service Permanent d'Inventaire et d'Aménagement forestiere, Zaire
National Forest Service, Forest Management Unit (FORMECU), Nigeria
Royal Forestry Department, Thailand
National Forest Inventory Project, Indonesia
Forest Survey of India, India
Participants at the Expert Consultation (May 1990):
Mr. Jan W. Van Roessel, Eros Data Center, U.S.A.
Mr. Jean Paul Malingreau, Joint Research Center of the EEC, Italy
Mr. P.R.O. Kio, Forest Research Institute of Nigeria, Nigeria
Mr. Aarne Nyyssonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Mr. H. Kenneweg, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Mr. H. Croze, UNEP-GRID, Nairobi
Mr. Norman Myers, Oxford, U.K. (review of Expert Consultation)
Mr. Alan Grainger, University of Salford, Salford, U.K.
Mr. George M. Woodwell, The Woods Hole Research Center, U.S.A.
Mr. Klankamsorn Boonchana, Royal Forestry Department, Thailand
Mr. L. Sayn Wittgenstein, Canada Center for Remote Sensing, Canada
Mr. Vernon J. La Bau, Pacific Northwest Experiment Station, Alaska, USA
Members of the In-depth Review Mission (April 1992):
Mr. Derk de Groot, Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management & Fisheries, the Netherlands
Dr. Paul C. Van Deusen, Southern Forest Experiment Station, U.S.A.
Dr. Ashbindu Singh, United Nations Environment Programme - GRID, Kenya
Dr. Nils Erik Nilsson, National Board of Forestry, Sweden
Dr. Michel Deshayes, Ecole Nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts, France
Mr. Paul Howard (rapporteur), USDA Forest Service, U.S.A.
