Quality assurance (QA) in international forest monitoring programmes: activity, problems and perspectives from East Asia and Europe

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Table VII

Details about number of countries and laboratories participating to the EANET inter-laboratory and field exercises.

Year	Wet deposition					Soil		Inland aquatic environment		Field exercises

	Sample	Countries	Labs	Sample	Countries	Labs	Sample	Countries	Labs	Sample	Countries	Labs	Trainees^***
	n	n	N	n	n	n	n	n	n	n	n	n	n
1998	2	10	24										8
1999	2	10	21				2	10	15				8
2000	2	10	24				2	10	15	1	7	13	8
2001	2	10	23				2^**	10	16	1	8	14	10
2002	2	10	24				2	10	14	1	8	14	9
2003	2	12	27				2	10	14	1	8	15	10
2004	2	12	28				2	10	14	1	9	16	10
2005	2	13	30	6^*	9	19	2	9	14	1	9	17	10
2006	2	13	31	6	10	20	2	9	14	1	9	18	10
2007	2	13	32	6	9	19	2	10	16	1	10	19	10

^***

The trainees in the JICA Training Course participated in all the fieldexercises on soil, forest vegetation, and inland water.

^**

The soil extract solutions were sent to the laboratories in the 2001 project.

Three sets of samples for acid- and alkali-impregnated filters and blank filters were sent;