Classification of Forest Roads and Determination of Route Using Geographic Information System

Abstract

-Geographic Information System (GIS) is an indispensable software tool in forest planning. In forestry transportation, GIS can manage the data on the road network and solve some problems in transportation, such as route planning. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the pattern of the road network and define transport routes using GIS technology. The present research was conducted in a forestry company in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The criteria used to classify the pattern of forest roads were horizontal and vertical geometry, and pavement type. In order to determine transport routes, a data Analysis Model Network was created in ArcGIS using an Extension Network Analyst, allowing finding a route shorter in distance and faster. The results showed a predominance of horizontal geometry classes average (3) and bad (4), indicating presence of winding roads. In the case of vertical geometry criterion, the class of highly mountainous relief (4) possessed the greatest extent of roads. Regarding the type of pavement, the occurrence of secondary coating was higher (75%), followed by primary coating (20%) and asphalt pavement (5%). The best route was the one that allowed the transport vehicle travel in a higher specific speed as a function of road pattern found in the study. Neste modelo foram utilizados critérios de distância e tempo para determinar as rotas. Os resultados mostraram predominância de geometria horizontal das classes média (3) e ruim (4) indicando presença de estradas sinuosas. Para o critério geometria vertical, a classe relevo altamente montanhoso (4) possuiu a maior extensão das estradas. Quanto ao tipo de pavimentação a ocorrência de revestimento secundário foi maior (75%), seguido por revestimento primário (20%) e pavimento asfáltico (5%). A melhor rota foi a que permitiu ao veiculo de transporte trafegar em numa maior velocidade determinada em funçao do padrão da estrada encontrado no estudo.Palavras-Chave: Transporte florestal; Geoprocessamento; Planejamento florestal.

Bulding a Knowledge Base for Developing New Technical Solitions for the Development of Forest Roads Network

“…Serious attention in road planning using geographic information systems (GIS) has been given in a number of papers (Sosa et al, 2015). For example, in the work (Silva et al, 2016) with the help of a GIS, a scheme of the road network of the study area was determined and its classification was made according to the criteria: horizontal and vertical geometry, type of road surface. At the same time, the network analysis model developed in ArcGIS allowed to establish transport routes based on the shortest distance and best performance, the latter being the most effective criterion in determining the best forest transport route.…”

Influence of Wood Stacking Location on Forest Transport Costs

“…The latter can be considered as unrealistic mainly because there are management tools for forest operations, for instance, geoprocessing, linear programming, and artificial intelligence. These tools have been applied in order to schedule the harvest and transportation operations, to know better the forest and to analyze the interaction between forest activities (LIMA et al, 2011;SILVA et al, 2016).…”

“…The tool has produced interesting reports and allowed reduction of costs (LIMA et al, 2011). Examples of scientific works that use GIS in the forest sector are Silva et al (2016), Ko et al (2019), and Duka et al (2017).…”