Download or read book Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Forest Inventory and Analysis Symposium written by U. S. Department U.S. Department of Agriculture and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-01-03 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this article, we describe in depth the analysis and solutions to manage the multiple coordinates of the sampling objects coming from the three different phases of the second Italian national forest inventory (Inventario Nazionale delle Foreste e dei serbatoi forestali di Carbonio [INFC]). In particular, this article describes the criteria used to determine the sample point coordinates of the first phase, the Global Positioning System (GPS) positioning procedure of the second phase, and the GPS-aided retrieval procedure of sample points during the third phase of the INFC.