SFEM 2018/IUFRO 4.02.02

CONFERENCE INVITATION

Dear Researchers and Colleagues,

On behalf of the SFEM2018/IUFRO 4.02.02 Organizing Committee, we cordially invite you to participate in the joint conference of the annual symposiums of the Sustainable Forest Ecosystem Management and the IUFRO 4.02.02. The conference will be held in Nantou, Taiwan on 28‐31 August 2018. The theme for SFEM2018/IUFRO 4.02.02 is “Combining Multiple Inventory Techniques and Management Science to Preserve the Forest Ecosystem for Future Generations” which emphasize the need to integrate the innovative natural resources inventory approaches and forest ecosystem management to achieve the sustainability.

The symposium is an opportunity for the international forest management community to gather and for colleagues from Japan, Korea, Taiwan and all the regions, to discuss the most recent techniques in the field and learn about the latest developments of forest management. You may want to check out the tentative program as well as the conference information on the website https://sites.google.com/view/sfem2018/home. We hope that you will plan to attend and participate in the great event with benefits as interesting as the landscape and culture of the Sun Moon Lake.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the Sun Moon Lake, Nantou, Taiwan!

Chinsu Lin

Professor of Remote Sensing, GIS, and Forest Management

Chair, SFEM2018/IUFRO 4.02.02 Organizing Committee

President, Taiwan Society of Forest Ecosystem Management (TWFEM)

Head of Remote Sensing and Forest Biogeoscience Laboratory (RSFBioL), NCYU

Director, Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, National Chiayi University (NCYU), Chiayi, Taiwan