Capacity building for the planning, assessment and systematic observations of forests : with special reference to tropical countries / Karan Deo Singh.

The growing mandate of forest inventories -- Forest inventory problem formulation -- Organizing existing information -- Technology transfer and applications -- Capacity building in planning and forest assessments -- Statistical planning -- Special studies -- Data collection -- Data processing -- The report writing -- Common patterns of spatial variations in the tropics -- Remote sensing applications in forest inventory -- Growth and yield studies -- Estimating potential productivity of forests -- Land evaluation techniques for forestry planning -- Identification and evaluation of environmental functions -- Ecological zoning and assessments of biological diversity in the tropics -- Forest asssessments for climate change reporting -- Global forest resources assessments -- International support to country capacity building.