A periodically updated sample-based system to provide information on the state of a country’s forest resources. (Methods and Guidance from the Global Forest Observations Initiative, FAO, 2016 (MR362).)
"Continuous (=permanent) forest inventory" is a sample plot design in forest inventories in which sample plots are permanently marked (i.e. so that they can be found in follow-up inventories) in order to allow repeat surveys of exactly the same sample plots, which significantly improves the precision of estimating changes. (Forest Inventory and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Germany)
