Monitoring the Italian forests

Enrico Pompei, Silvia Ferlazzo, Cristina Modesti - Corpo Forestale dello Stato, Ispettorato Generale del Corpo forestale dello Stato, Divisione 6^, Rome, Italy

The Italian National forest Service, in addition to other institutional duties, carries out forest monitoring through two working programs: the National Forest and Carbon Sink Inventory (INFC) and the National Network for Forest Ecosystems Control (CONECOFOR)