Summation of Scientific Growth Data Activities and Methodologies 1975-2021. 1980 D Alder did an FAO Forestry Paper 22/2 vol 2 Rome titled Forest Volume Estimation and Yield Prediction. 1980 PNGRIS (Papua New Guinea Resource Information System) (Funded by AusAID and PNG). This project commenced in 1980 to 1987 as a joint co-operative research project between the PNG Department of Primary Industry (DPI) (now Dept of Agriculture and Livestock) and CSIRO. It was envisaged as a comprehensive nationwide inventory of natural resources, land use and population for the whole of PNG. At the time of its completion, the forest resources were not included. PNGRIS No 6 Papua New Guinea inventory of natural resources. Population Distribution and Land use handbook. ISBN 0642196109. PNGRIS No 2 Forest Resources of Papua New Guinea ISBN 0642196036. CSIRO Division of Land Use Research Land research series No 35 Vegetation of Papua New Guinea ISBN 0643001387. 1989 FAO funded and undertook a project in PNG titled Forest Management Research and Development FAO: DP/PNG/84/003. B Kingston was the Mensuration Adviser whose working document No 14 was titled FOREST MENSURATION IN THE NATURAL FOREST. B Kingston working document No 13 of FAO 1989 project Compilation of tree volume tables for the lowland forests. PNG/84/003. 1991 Michael Adams1 reported details of the ITTO/PNG project PD 162/91 Intensification of growth and yield studies in previously logged forest. https://www.itto.int/project/id/PD162_91-Rev.1-F 1992 D Alder Forest growth specialist undertook projects re PNG permanent plots and growth yields. Reports included: Alder D 1992. Simple methods for calculating minimum diameter and sustainable yield in mixed tropical forest. Proceedings of the Oxford Conference on Tropical Forests Wise Management of Tropical Forests. Oxford Forestry Institute. Alder D and Synott TC 1992. Permanent Sample Plot techniques for mixed tropical forests. Tropical Forestry Paper No 25 Oxford Forestry Institute. 1995 Forest Resources and Vegetation Mapping E T Hammermaster and J C Saunders CSIRO/PNGRIS 1995 reflects the progress made in mapping PNG vegetation since the 1970’s with the advent of the computer era and associated digitisation. 1997 David Freyne Team leader of the Land Mobilisation Project (ACLMP1) 1997, presented his unpublished report Resource Inventory: Developing the Management Database to the Foresters’ Refresher school FRI Lae 1997, as part of the PNG Forestry Human Resource Development Project funded by AusAid. David Freyne described the rapid resource appraisal (RRA) of PNG forest resources, the resource inventory and the setting up of the FIM (forest information system) for use by the National Forest Service to assist with management of the forest resources of the country. In 1987, following the launching of PNGRIS, the Department of Forests requested the CSIRO be contracted to expand the database to include information on PNG’s Forest resources. Following the United Nation’s Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the World Bank and AusAid supported the concept of a PNG National Forestry and Conservation Action Plan (NFCAP). Considering this development, and the original request from the Department of Forests, AusAID contracted CSIRO to undertake a rapid resource appraisal (RRA) of the nation’s resources. This RRA was the first of a series of studies which has resulted in the Forest Resource Inventory (FIM). Under the contract to carry out a RRA of PNG’s Forest resources, PNGRIS was upgraded to include 1:500,000 scale mapping of the resource. The upgraded version of PNGRIS with data on the forest resources included, provided users with capacity to make a first level assessment of forest resources at provincial and/or national level. The forest resource information in PNGRIS constituted the principal data source for compilation of the National Forest Plan and Provincial Forest Development Plans of 1996.
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