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For most forest inventories, the area of the forest must be determined (Sect. 11.2). Generally, this involves surveying the forest boundary, drawing a map from the survey and determining the forest area from the map.
Mapping is generally the realm of the professional surveyor and cartographer. Much more information may be included on maps than just the boundaries of areas of interest. However, anyone working in the forestry needs to understand the principles at least of how a survey of a forest area is done, how a map of its boundaries is drawn from it and how the area of the forest is calculated.
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West, P.W. (2009). The Plane Survey. In: Tree and Forest Measurement. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-95966-3_12
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