Acknowledgements
We would like to direct our special thanks and appreciations to the persons who have reviewed the subject papers and assited in the work with the annotated bibliographies.The first review was made in 2003 by a group of students of the MSc course "Tropical and International Forestry" at Göttingen University during the teaching module "Forest Inventory". The principally participating students were Mrs. Basundhara Bhattarai, Mr. Stijn Cleemput, Mr. Tzeng-Yih Lam, and Mr. Sebastian Derwisch.
The following persons are acknowledged for reviewing the subject papers:
Rationale and Policy influence
Mr. Rodney Keenan, Bureau of Rural Sciences, AustraliaMr. Sven Svensson, National Board of Forestry, Sweden
Organization and Implementation
Mr. Ulf Söderberg, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, SwedenSample designs
Mr. Kenneth Cormier, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Colorado USAMr. Mark H. Hansen, North Central Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Minnesota USA
Mr. Juha Heikkinen, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Observation and Measurement
Mr. Gyde Lund, Forest Information Services, USAData collection through Interviews
Mr. Dan Altrell, FAO-FORM, Rome, ItalyMrs. Marilyn Hoskins, FAO (retired)
Mrs. Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, USA
Mrs. Amy Poteete, University of New Orleans, USA
Information mangement and Data registration
Mr. Hugh Barclay, Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, CanadaMr. Mark Gillis, Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Canada
Modeling for estimation and Monitoring
Mr. Ivo Kupka, Czech University of Agriculture in Prague, Czech RepublicMr. Jens Peter Skovsgaard, Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, KVL, Denmark
Mr. Jerry Vanclay, Southern Cross University, Australia