Improving forest inventories - Three ways to incorporate auxiliary information

Precise estimates of standing inventory often are needed in a very short ti me; for example, in appraisal situations for acquisitions and divestitures. Opportunities to integrate auxiliary information into forest stand invento ry are considerable, and the potential benefits are very attractive. This a rticle presents three popular techniques for incorporating auxiliary inform ation into forest inventory: list sampling, stratification and Poisson samp ling.