Included the paper presented and discussion of the seminar on Mensurational problems in forest inventory.

Abstract: Different error budgets are approximated for the First Swiss National Forest Inventory. An error budget displays the effects of individual errors and groups of errors on the accuracy of estimates. The goal of developing the error budgets was to account for the significance sources of errors that can be expected in the national survey. Sources of error included measurements error of quantitative and qualitative attributes, regression error, and sampling error. It was found in general thet the national survey system was not very sensitive to unbiased random errors but was sensitive to systematic measurement errors.

The impact of measuring trees at 1.3m versus 1.37m heights above ground line is analyzed. The results indicate that the difference in diameter measurement taken at the two points average around 1%. The conversion equation from English to Metric is presented

The total height measured with Chain and Abney Level is compared with the exact height measured after felling trees. The error involved in the measurement of standing trees is indicated.

Describe about the Philippine-German Forest research inventory project, inventory data processing, use of inventory data for national forest, information potential of natural forest inventories with focus on Mensurational problem in forest inventory

The paper gives some indications about the precision in estimates of the diameter increment of a stem at breast height. Thirty seven sampling trees have been selected and the measurement is taken for 5 years

This paper looks at the effect of different levels of inventory precision and variance on the estimated number of sample plots and their associated costs in the Noel Kempff Mercado Climate Action Project in northeastern Bolivia.

This paper deals with the extent the accuracy of predicted basal-area diameter distributions (DDG) could be improved by means of stem number observations in advanced (H > 10 m) stands. The analysis is based on sixty stands of Norway spruce (Picea abies Karst.) and ninety-one stands of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) with Birch (Betula pendula Roth and B. pubescens Ehrh.)

In this article, the effect of sloping terrain on estimates in point and transect Relascope sampling (PRS and TRS, respectively) is studied. With these inventory methods, a wide angle Relascope is used either from sample points (PRS) or along survey lines (TRS). Characteristics associated with line-shaped objects on the ground are assessed, e.g., the length or volume of downed logs. In their basic forms, the methods only work in flat terrain, and thus bias is incurred under sloping conditions.