Progress in research on the comprehensive monitoring of forest resources

From the perspectives of the core concepts，the inventory and monitoring methods of forest resources were introduced，and the characteristics of national forest inventory at home and broad were compared． At the same time，the status quo of forest resources monitoring in the major developed forestry countries was analyzed． Based on the current conditions and existing problems in forest resources monitoring in China，according to the actual conditions and the social requirements for forest resources monitoring，the paper pointed out that the development trend and construction goal of forest resources comprehensive monitoring in China should be the diversification of monitoring content，annual monitoring period，the standardization of monitoring technology，the integration of monitoring measures and the sharing of monitoring information．［Ch，41 ref.］