Evaluating the Potential of Commercial Forest Inventory Data to Report on Forest Carbon Stock and Forest Carbon Stock Changes for REDD+ under the UNFCCC

Table 2

Number of plots required for a specified accuracy level for fully corrected simulated aboveground biomass (Mg ha⁻¹).

	Number of plots for required accuracy level
	5% accuracy	10% accuracy	Existing plots
All plots	408	102	2,240
1	448	112	217
2	354	89	267
3	480	120	70
4	411	103	147
5	343	86	147
6	367	92	178
7	440	110	164
8	320	80	70
9	399	100	578
10	374	94	412
FT 1	476	119	766
FT 2	407	102	589
FT 3	343	86	885