Diamonds in EFIʹs forest resources and information research

Ten years work of the European Forest Institute on forest resources and information research is reviewed. Two special lines of research are found: research in retrieving and organising data in data bases and information systems, combining and linking them mutually and with other data bases in order to finally end up as a first stop shop for forest and forestry related information. A special diamond in this line is the description of the methods, how to derive a map of forests in Europe combining such different sources like satellite data, forest statistics and national inventories. The second line is a large scale scenario model, with many sub-modules, extensions and applications, covering the whole range of questions from the effects of an increasing proportion of nature oriented forestry in Europe to their effect on carbon trading and different objectives.