Flanders: Design and manual for the second regional forest inventory of the Flemish Region

In accordance with Article 41quater of the Flemish Forest Decree (Vlaamse Regering, 1990) the ‘Flemish forest management’ (i.e., the Agency for Nature and Forests, ANF) has to make a sample based inventory of the Flemish forests with an intervening period of at maximum ten years. In preparation to the second Flemish forest inventory (= FFI), the ANF wrote in 2004 specifications for the evaluation of the first FFI and the design of the sampling scheme for the second FFI. This two year-project (April 2006 until March 2008) was assigned to the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) in collaboration with the laboratory of Silviculture of the University of Ghent. Document in Flemish only the Abstract is available in English.