Forest Cover and Mapping
Forest conservation practices need micro to macro level planning. This application will look after the establishing, managing, using, and conserving forests, trees and associated resources in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals, needs, and values.
We provide services to support sustainable forest management. Our services include forest cover mapping, forest inventory, and forest health monitoring.
Updating forest management plans
- tree felling, delimitation and monitoring of parcels, biomass estimation, plant health and plantation monitoring.
- Estimating fire, storm and other extreme weather damage.
- Planning and protecting conservation areas.
- Performing fuel analysis and identification of areas where the danger of fire is high.
- Mapping of deforestation, Monitoring of forest regrowth and conservation activities.
Forest stock mapping
Large area imaging enables the management of vast areas of forestry, building valuable historical data to monitor quality of stock, mitigate potential problems and plan future management programmes.
- Reforestation, afforestation and deforestation.
- Forestry management.
- Degradation.
- Logging road and logging concession.
- Natural, artificial, illegal practises.
- Species and growth stage monitoring.
- Land tenure related to forestry concession.
Fire damage estimation and the monitoring of fires is critical world-wide in providing
- A detailed and up to date land cover map.
- Risk maps which can be created based on the vegetation index.
- Accurate mapping of burn scar extent.
- Automatic evaluation of burn scar extents.
- Detailed analysis using a land cover map to assess areas damaged.
- Remediation effort which can be directed to prevent problems due to later erosion.
To authorise and provide secure rights to rural communities under existing forests legislation to protect, afforest, restore, utilise forest protection, sustainable forest management, the reduction of poverty, watershed management and other policy objectives.