July-August 1948
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
SIR JOHN BOYD ORR, Director-General
DIVISION OF FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS
MARCEL LELOUP, Director
FORESTRY BRANCH
B. B. SHOW, Chief
J. D. B. HARRISON
T. FRANCOIS
D. Y. LIN
M. A. HUBERMAN
H. SCAVENIUS
FOREST PRODUCTS BRANCH
E. GLESINGER, Chief
P. TERVER
L. J. VERNELL
A. GORDON
S. J. BAUER
N. DE FELSÖVANYI
J. P. KAGAN
T. SANDBU
SECRETARIAT
J. VINZANT, Chief
R. C. FORTUNESCU, Editor
EUROPEAN WORKING. GROUP
D. R. CAMERON, Chief
P. SARTORIUS
R. G. FONTAINE
S. J. BAUER
STANDING ADVISORY COMMITEE ON FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS
Chairman, L. F. WATTS Chief of U. S. Forest Service, Washington, D. C., U. S. A.
Vice-Chairman, B. DUFAY Director-General of Waters and Forests, Paris France
G. CERF, Adviser to the Belgian Government on International Timber Affairs
H. G. CHAMPION, Professor of Forestry, Oxford University, England
A. FJELSTAD, Delegate of the Royal Norwegian Government on Agricultural Affairs, Washington, D. C., U. S. A.
S. C. LEE, Chief, Department of Forestry, Nanking, China
D. A. MACDONALD, Acting Dominion Forester, Dominion Forest Service, Department of Mines and Resources, Ottawa, Canada
H. MARK, Director of the Institute of High Polymer Chemistry and of the Chemical Department, Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, New York, U. S. A.
E. SAARI, Professor, Forestry Department, University of Helsinki, Finland
P. DE SOUZA, Chief, Division of Forests and Parks, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
H. G. WINKELMANN, Director of the Swiss Forest Economy Association, Solothurn, Switzerland
Forestry Education: Chairman, H. G. CHAMPION
Chemical Wood Technology: Chairman, H. MARK
Mechanical Wood Technology: Chairman, J. CAMPREDON, Chief of the Central Research Services for Wood, Paris, France
Unexploited Forests: Chairman, T. GILL, Secretary of the Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Foundation, Washington, D. C., U. S. A.
Pulp and Paper: Chairman, L. RYS, Professor of Wood Chemistry at the University of Prague, Czechoslovakia
Forest Research: Chairman, E. I. KOTOK, Assistant Chief in charge of Research, U. S. Forest Service, Washington, D C., U. S. A.
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Norris E. Dodd
The three programs
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Preparations for the forest inventory, 1947
Some definitions
Principal elements of the inventory
Presentation of the results
Summary and conclusions
A tool in vegetation and land-use surveys
Specifications of aerial photographs
Use of aerial photographs in surveys
Advantages and limitations
Use in forest inventories
Information provided by aerial photographs
Correlation of information
Determination of volume
Combined aerial-ground techniques
Use of aerial photographs in inventory
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