National forest inventory in Czech Republic

Abstract

The National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a large-scale survey of forest status and forest production potential using a uniform procedure for the entire territory of Czech Republic. The first National Inventory was conducted from 2000 to 2004. It became necessary to repeat the survey in order to unify the results from both the Czech statistical office and the forest management plans. The second forest inventory is now being carried out 10 years after the initial inventory, considering the first as for reference. This report includes both the methodology of the second NFI2 and the evaluation of present forest data. One goal of the second NFI is to develop simpler and more accurate methods for correlating forest growth and volume with the measurements made on the stands. The National Forest Inventory can support other surveys for comparison purposes.