Precision forestry: concepts, tools and perspectives in Italy

Corona, C; Chianucci, C; Quatrini, Q; Civitarese, C; Clementel, C; Costa, Corrado; Floris, F. J. T.; Menesatti, M; Puletti, P; Sperandio, S; Verani,; Turco, T; Bernardini, B; Plutino, Manuela; Scrinzi, S

doi:10.3832/efor2285-014

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“…New technologies such as UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle such as drones) and LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) represent new forest stand parameters acquisition tools making it possible to obtain accurate data over large areas [15]. LiDAR systems, commonly mounted on satellite, airplanes or helicopters, represent a solid innovation for mapping forest attributes on spatially extensive areas and their use finds several applications in forest inventory as well as to support decision-making sustainable forest management processes [16]. For example, some S-DSS have proven a novel application of LiDAR data to assess wood production under various harvesting options or the integration of a visualization system with modelling as a new approach to forest management planning and decision-making [17][18][19].…”

Section: Forest Dss Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Currently, Airborne Laser Scanner technology represents one of the most promising and effective innovation for a wide range of forestry applications, in particular, it allows a valuable estimation of above-ground biomass [16,39]. Within SOILCONSWEB activities, discrete-return aerial LiDAR data, collected during 2011 leaf-off condition were used to distinguish forest stand parameters and structural diversity in the study area.…”

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A Geospatial Decision Support System Tool for Supporting Integrated Forest Knowledge at the Landscape Scale

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Basile

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Forests are part of a complex landscape mosaic and play a crucial role for people living both in rural and urbanized spaces. Recent progresses in modelling and Decision Support System (DSS) applied to the forestry sector promise to improve public participative forest management and decision-making in planning and conservation issues. However, most DSS are not open-source systems, being in many cases software designed for site-specific applications in forest ecosystems. Furthermore, some of these systems often miss challenging the integration of other land uses within the landscape matrix, which is a key issue in modern forestry planning aiming at linking recent developments in open-source Spatial-DSS systems to sectorial forest knowledge. This paper aims at demonstrating that a new type of S-DSS, developed within the Life+ project SOILCONSWEB over an open-source Geospatial Cyber-Infrastructure (GCI) platform, can provide a strategic web-based operational tool for forest resources management and multi-purpose planning. In order to perform simulation modelling, all accessible via the Web, the GCI platform supports acquisition and processing of both static and dynamic data (e.g., spatial distribution of soil and forest types, growing stock and yield), data visualization and computer on-the-fly applications. The DSS forestry tool has been applied to a forest area of 5,574 ha in the southern Apennines of Peninsular Italy, and it has been designed to address forest knowledge and management providing operational support to private forest owners and decision-makers involved in management of forest landscape at different levels. Such a geospatial S-DSS tool for supporting integrated forest knowledge at landscape represents a promising tool to implement sustainable forest management and planning. Results and output of the platform will be shown through a short selection of practical case studies.

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Section: Forest Dss Systemsmentioning

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A Geospatial Decision Support System Tool for Supporting Integrated Forest Knowledge at the Landscape Scale

Marano

Langella

Basile

et al. 2019

Forests

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“…Occorre valutare preliminarmente i costi e il valore del prodotto in riferimento soprattutto al legname da opera ed in particolare di quello di alto pregio o di nicchia, che spesso è totalmente non valorizzato anche per carenza di informazione inventariale raccolta in sede di pianificazione. A partire dalle operazioni di identificazione dei soggetti destinati al taglio, le promettenti tecnologie oggi esistenti -comprese quelle di georeferenziazione posizionale automatica di precisione (Corona et al 2017) -possono già consentire di archiviare in remoto (anche con dispositivi smartphone e tablet) una identificazione univoca del soggetto primario (albero) con relative informazioni dendrometriche ed assestamentali. L'associazione di oggetti derivati (tronchi) può poi avvenire via via già in sede di utilizzazione, con la possibilità di inserire anche informazioni dimensionali e qualitative degli assortimenti ottenuti, tendenti anche a orientare le successive lavorazioni e ad eliminare ulteriori fasi di contabilizzazione all'imposto e relativi rischi per la sicurezza degli operatori (Corona & Scrinzi 2014).…”

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Economic assessment of RFID coupled with open source technologies for wood traceability in Calabria

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Figorilli³

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IntroduzioneL'applicazione di tecnologie innovative e di precisione volte al miglioramento dell'efficienza e della qualità dei prodotti e dei processi produttivi ha avuto un notevole sviluppo in questi ultimi decenni nel settore agro-alimentare (Costa et al. 2013), mentre solo più recentemente questo aspetto è venuto a interessare anche il settore forestale (Timpe 2006, Björk et al. 2011, Corona & Scrinzi 2014, Picchi et al. 2015. Di particolare interesse al riguardo è la possibilità di applicazione di tecnologie innovative per la tracciabilità dei flussi di legname basate sull'applicazione di sistemi di Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). In ambito europeo, per la tematica del controllo della or tons of processed product. The results showed that the use of RFID technology along the supply chain could lead to an effective operational simplification and to a more efficient use of resources. Based on the average market prices for timber (80-120 € / m 3 ), the implementation of RFID technology led to an increase in timber price by 8% under the worst scenarios. This suggests that the use of open source technologies for wood traceability is already feasible and economically sustainable, as 40% of private companies stated their willingness to pay a premium price (on average 3.25% higher) for purchasing certified local wood products in Calabria. Moreover, we expect a further reduction of tags and hardware costs in the next future, up to half the costs estimated in this work, thus making the application of such technology to timber traceability even more affordable.

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“…The growing interest in environmental and social services of forests has led to an increase in the importance of the forest world but also to a greater complexity of its systems [1].…”

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Recent Contributions of Some Fields of the Electronics in Development of Forest Operations Technologies

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In the last years, there has been a growing need to improve forest-wood chain concerning all three pillars of sustainability (economic, environmental, and social). Using electronic systems, in particular GIS, GNSS, and various kinds of sensors related to forest harvesting, is clearly one of the most powerful instruments to reach this aim. The contribution of these tools to forest operation is wide and various. One of the most important application was integrating ICT and GPS/GNSS on-board systems on modern forest machines. This allowed one to ensure multiple benefits to forest operation field. On the one hand, electronic systems, and particularly GIS, could be used to improve forest harvesting with a previous planning of the skid trails network, in order to minimize utilization impacts and risks for operators, ensuring at the same time high work productivity. Moreover, GIS developed files could also be implemented in modern forest machine GPS/GNSS systems, helping forest machines operators to move only along a designed skid trails network or making it possible to avoid restricted access areas. On the other hand, modern forest machines could be equipped with complex and accurate sensors that are able to determine, register, and share information about wood biomass quantity and quality and even undertake economic evaluation of stumpage value. Finally, the input and output of these systems and sensors could be implemented in a decision support system (DSS) ensuring the best silvicultural and operative alternative from a sustainable forest management point of view. A detailed review of the contribution of electronics in the development of forest operations is provided here.

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Precision forestry: concepts, tools and perspectives in Italy

Cited by 25 publications

References 34 publications

A Geospatial Decision Support System Tool for Supporting Integrated Forest Knowledge at the Landscape Scale

A Geospatial Decision Support System Tool for Supporting Integrated Forest Knowledge at the Landscape Scale

Economic assessment of RFID coupled with open source technologies for wood traceability in Calabria

Recent Contributions of Some Fields of the Electronics in Development of Forest Operations Technologies

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