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The second Italian National Forest Inventory (NFI) provides useful data – on forest growth and harvest, and on accessibility and availability for wood supply – for the development of a woody biomass resource projection method for Italy. Currently, woody biomass resource projection procedures based on detailed input variables have not been tested at the national scale. Nevertheless some local and regional models have been developed to assess ecologically and technically-logistically exploitable forest resources. In particular, r.green.biomassfor model, a Geographic Information System (GIS) based tool developed and tested in the Province of Trento, is regarded as suitable for implementation with data available at the country level. The paper focuses on the description of the r.green.biomassfor model and on the NFI data useful for the implementation of the model.
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Paletto, A., Sacchelli, S., Gasparini, P. (2017). Italy. In: Barreiro, S., Schelhaas, MJ., McRoberts, R., Kändler, G. (eds) Forest Inventory-based Projection Systems for Wood and Biomass Availability. Managing Forest Ecosystems, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56201-8_18
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