An overview of existing and promising technologies for national forest monitoring

The main goal of national forest programs is to lead and steer forest policy development and implementation processes in an inter-sectoral way (FAO 2006). National forest monitoring systems contribute to forest programs through monitoring forest changes and forest services over time (FAO 2013). To d...

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Autores Principales: Matieu, Henry, Réjou-Méchain, Maxime, Cifuentes-Jara, Miguel, Wayson, Craig, Piotto, Daniel, Westfall, James, Michel-Fuentes, José María, Alice-Guier, Federico, Castañeda-Lombis, Héctor, Castellanos-López, Edwin, Cuenca-Lara, Ruby, Cueva-Rojas, Kelvin, Águila-Pasquel, Jhon, Duque-Montoya, Álvaro, Fernández-Vega, Javier
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spelling RepoTEC71152023-10-16T22:41:26Z An overview of existing and promising technologies for national forest monitoring Matieu, Henry Réjou-Méchain, Maxime Cifuentes-Jara, Miguel Wayson, Craig Piotto, Daniel Westfall, James Michel-Fuentes, José María Alice-Guier, Federico Castañeda-Lombis, Héctor Castellanos-López, Edwin Cuenca-Lara, Ruby Cueva-Rojas, Kelvin Águila-Pasquel, Jhon Duque-Montoya, Álvaro Fernández-Vega, Javier Monitoreo de bosques Teledetección Políticas forestales Research Subject Categories::FORESTRY, AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES and LANDSCAPE PLANNING::Plant production::Forestry Recopilación de datos Nuevas tecnologías Telémetros Monitoreo forestal Forest monitoring Remote sensing Forest policies Data collection New technologies Range finders The main goal of national forest programs is to lead and steer forest policy development and implementation processes in an inter-sectoral way (FAO 2006). National forest monitoring systems contribute to forest programs through monitoring forest changes and forest services over time (FAO 2013). To do so, they generally collect and analyze forest-related data and provide knowledge and recommendations at regular intervals. The collection of forest-related data and their analyses have continually evolved with technological and computational advances (Kleinn 2002). For instance, ground measurements, such as diameter or height measurements, which were typically measured with measuring tape or forest compasses and relascopes, are now enhanced with new technologies, such as laser range finders. Furthermore, remote sensing is being increasingly used to improve ground sampling strategies (Maniatis and Mollicone 2010), to calculate forested land area and area changes (INPE 2006; INPE 2008; Hansen et al. 2013), and to detect many variables of interest such as forest fires, pest outbreaks, or trees outside forests (Barducci et al. 2002). The use of remotely sensed data together with ground-based observations has gained a lot of attention for estimating greenhouse gas emissions and removals associated with forests, particularly in the context of REDD+ (GOFC-GOLD 2010; GFOI 2014). During the last decades, the amount of information collected during forest inventories has thus grown rapidly and has, in turn, improved our ability to survey and manage many services such as biodiversity, carbon sequestration, or recreation. However, national forest monitoring approaches remain very heterogeneous from one country to another, and many national systems have still not taken the full advantage of newly operational technologies, despite an increasing availability of free, or at least less costly, data. This is probably because the use of these technologies to assess forest structural properties is, for the most part, used by only a few specialists and is largely confined to the research sector. The objective of this paper is to raise awareness by presenting, in a comprehensible way, some existing and promising technologies for supporting national forest monitoring. 2017-05-30T19:50:43Z 2017-05-30T19:50:43Z 2015-09 info:eu-repo/semantics/article https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84938576552&partnerID=40&md5=8afafc4f46a8c168b0c9d3e552e012ca 10.1007/s13595-015-0463-z 12864560 https://hdl.handle.net/2238/7115 eng_US Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Costa Rica https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/cr/ application/pdf Springer-Verlag France Annals of Forest Science (2015) 72:779–788. 10.1007/s13595-015-0463-z
institution Tecnológico de Costa Rica
collection Repositorio TEC
language Inglés
topic Monitoreo de bosques
Teledetección
Políticas forestales
Research Subject Categories::FORESTRY, AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES and LANDSCAPE PLANNING::Plant production::Forestry
Recopilación de datos
Nuevas tecnologías
Telémetros
Monitoreo forestal
Forest monitoring
Remote sensing
Forest policies
Data collection
New technologies
Range finders
spellingShingle Monitoreo de bosques
Teledetección
Políticas forestales
Research Subject Categories::FORESTRY, AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES and LANDSCAPE PLANNING::Plant production::Forestry
Recopilación de datos
Nuevas tecnologías
Telémetros
Monitoreo forestal
Forest monitoring
Remote sensing
Forest policies
Data collection
New technologies
Range finders
Matieu, Henry
Réjou-Méchain, Maxime
Cifuentes-Jara, Miguel
Wayson, Craig
Piotto, Daniel
Westfall, James
Michel-Fuentes, José María
Alice-Guier, Federico
Castañeda-Lombis, Héctor
Castellanos-López, Edwin
Cuenca-Lara, Ruby
Cueva-Rojas, Kelvin
Águila-Pasquel, Jhon
Duque-Montoya, Álvaro
Fernández-Vega, Javier
An overview of existing and promising technologies for national forest monitoring
description The main goal of national forest programs is to lead and steer forest policy development and implementation processes in an inter-sectoral way (FAO 2006). National forest monitoring systems contribute to forest programs through monitoring forest changes and forest services over time (FAO 2013). To do so, they generally collect and analyze forest-related data and provide knowledge and recommendations at regular intervals. The collection of forest-related data and their analyses have continually evolved with technological and computational advances (Kleinn 2002). For instance, ground measurements, such as diameter or height measurements, which were typically measured with measuring tape or forest compasses and relascopes, are now enhanced with new technologies, such as laser range finders. Furthermore, remote sensing is being increasingly used to improve ground sampling strategies (Maniatis and Mollicone 2010), to calculate forested land area and area changes (INPE 2006; INPE 2008; Hansen et al. 2013), and to detect many variables of interest such as forest fires, pest outbreaks, or trees outside forests (Barducci et al. 2002). The use of remotely sensed data together with ground-based observations has gained a lot of attention for estimating greenhouse gas emissions and removals associated with forests, particularly in the context of REDD+ (GOFC-GOLD 2010; GFOI 2014). During the last decades, the amount of information collected during forest inventories has thus grown rapidly and has, in turn, improved our ability to survey and manage many services such as biodiversity, carbon sequestration, or recreation. However, national forest monitoring approaches remain very heterogeneous from one country to another, and many national systems have still not taken the full advantage of newly operational technologies, despite an increasing availability of free, or at least less costly, data. This is probably because the use of these technologies to assess forest structural properties is, for the most part, used by only a few specialists and is largely confined to the research sector. The objective of this paper is to raise awareness by presenting, in a comprehensible way, some existing and promising technologies for supporting national forest monitoring.
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author Matieu, Henry
Réjou-Méchain, Maxime
Cifuentes-Jara, Miguel
Wayson, Craig
Piotto, Daniel
Westfall, James
Michel-Fuentes, José María
Alice-Guier, Federico
Castañeda-Lombis, Héctor
Castellanos-López, Edwin
Cuenca-Lara, Ruby
Cueva-Rojas, Kelvin
Águila-Pasquel, Jhon
Duque-Montoya, Álvaro
Fernández-Vega, Javier
author_sort Matieu, Henry
title An overview of existing and promising technologies for national forest monitoring
title_short An overview of existing and promising technologies for national forest monitoring
title_full An overview of existing and promising technologies for national forest monitoring
title_fullStr An overview of existing and promising technologies for national forest monitoring
title_full_unstemmed An overview of existing and promising technologies for national forest monitoring
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