0 - Framework - forest inventories and monitoring in the perspective of sustainable management
1 - Fundamentals - recall and synthesis of logic, mathematics and statistics - empirical distributions and models
2 - Sampling schemes - random s., s. with variable probabilities, systematic s., stratified s., cluster s., multistage s., multiphase s.
3 - Monitoring: Sampling repeated on the same population
4 - Simulation - methods and tools for exploring, learning, testing (initiation of the work required to produce the final report)
E - Practical work, seminars on:
* E1 - operating systems and 'open source'
* E2 - spreadsheets (the PC beyond the handheld calculator)
* E3 - Data Base Management Systems, RDBMS and SQL
* E4 - organization and documentation of the data processing flow in the R environment