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National Forest Inventory conducted a forest inventory in each administrative unit called département' (NUTS 3) every 12 years. Thus the forest statistics was locally precise but it was not more the case for national or large area results and for area independent of the stratification of the sample. So, a new forest inventory with a systematic and annual sampling was designed and applied. The initial sample is divided several times in different sub-samples according to the phase (photointerpretation, field work), the type of vegetation (poplar stand, other forest, heath and moorland, hedge, tree row), the cost and the interest of the data.
Annual figures can be produced for France and large interregional areas. Five years are necessary for the regional level. The estimation of the consequences of catastrophic events can be produced by coming back on the last annual samples of plots. Finally, the organisation of the work has been strongly modified.
Key words: forest inventory, systematic sampling, annual sampling, statistic network, forest statistic, post-stratification.
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