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ArticleJournal articleA Real-Time European Forest Monitoring System – (RT-EFMS)
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.42% of European surface are forest eco-systems facing various impacts by climate change effects, leading to unpredictable outcomes and uncertainties for society and for forest-based industries, a green booster of circular economy. Forest ecosystems are not limited by geo-political borders, creating extra burden by combining and connecting expertise, competences and building knowledge-based capacities for best solutions. Throughout Europe, knowledge, expertise and long-lasting experience exists within various networks of specialists in forest and environmental research. The current tools, instruments, models and networks are insufficient to address the overall complex framework and to provide information and expertise for the adaptation to climate change and for reinforcing resilience in the eco-systems and the depending value chains. The frequencies and the dimension of these impacts require concise actions, huge capacities and competences to be mobilised in a very short manner. Adaptation strategies as well as urgent actions to manage disturbances lack good data and accessible real life-time actual information. Therefore, it is essential to develop a monitoring system that will be based upon a vibrant expert network, connecting local forest information to a European network information system, coordinated by an independent expert team. The system will digest and analyse data to provide actualised knowledge and information back to users to support their specific (local) needs. Essential tools like the Forest Information System for Europe – FISE, developed by the European Environment Agency (EEA) as well as the Copernicus earth observation programmes and many other existing inventories, models, decision support systems etc., could be further fine-tuned by feeding-in regularly actualised data on forest ecosystems. An independent expert group provides forecast information on various scenarios for accompanying forest adaptation and management strategies. Keywords: Monitoring and data collection, Knowledge management, Sustainable forest management, Climate change, Adaptive and integrated management ID: 3483957 -
ArticleJournal articleThe potential cure for COVID-19: The role of medicinal non wood forestal products and the promising public policies for its use in pandemics times
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.A new coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) had shocked our economy and our lives causing panic and chaos since February 2020. This novel disease locked us down at home and collapsed the Health System in Bolivia which caused thousands of deaths for the lack of prompt attention. This situation drove unprotected population to seek for alternative treatments under the favorable legislation for Ancestral Traditional Medicine using Non-Wood Forest Products, plants and trees. Traditional Medicine had been an alternative treatment for human diseases for centuries and its practices were transmitted by person to person. Nowadays, in the emergence of this new disease, the scientific research had noted that some NWFP and parts of plants and trees had striking effects on respiratory diseases such as SARS, MERS and SARS-CoV2. These studies showed promising results in inhibiting, preventing and coating against the new coronavirus with a wide variety of preparations and presentations. To show the latest research on Alternative Medicine, an accurate scientific literature review was made that allowed the classification in three Groups: (10) to prevent infection and enhance immunity, (14) essential oils for vaporization and (3) antiviral coating. On the Bolivian scenario, there are two groups of medicinal plants for respiratory diseases. The group of Infusions is composed by 21 species from 14 families. The group of vaporization is composed by 4 species from 4 families. Furthermore, the legal enabling environment in the Bolivian scenario with the Law No 459 Ancestral Traditional Medicine and the Alternative Treatment for the COVID-19 disease with Non Wood Forestal Products and parts of plants are novel public policies for all Bolivians. Keywords: Non Wood Forestal Products, Respiratory diseases, Ancestral Traditional Medicine, favorable legal frameworks ID: 3481420 -
ArticleJournal articleA study on the establishment of crucial forest resources and cultural heritage protection systems using public big data (focusing on the use of QGIS)
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.In case of huge wildfires, the command headquarter of the relevant forest site immediately becomes a center on which all resources, such as material resources and manpower, are concentrated, giving a negative impact on effective management for fire-fighting manpower on ground. Even worse, the conditions of wildfires are naturally varied by each case while the fire spreads into vast areas in a short time, if left unchecked, so a quick decision for the fire fighting is inevitable. For this reason, the necessity of providing wildfire maps is increasingly recognized. Therefore, a wildfire map was created by mapping major forest resources, protected-trees and spatial information of cultural assets with QGIS (Quantum Geographic Information System), an open source geographic information system. Also, a verification experiment was conducted by utilizing ‘QField’ (a smartphone application) as a decision making platform in the forest disaster scene. As a result of the experiment, firstly, there was an improvement in effectiveness of the hours required to deploy firefighters (300 meters reduced, 61% improvement in terms of time), as the command headquarters could easily identify the case to be handled with the highest priority, and deploy the necessary number of firefighters promptly; secondly, immediate decision making was available at the scene of forest fire frequently changed its development by several factors, including wind; and thirdly, by utilizing big data for several elements like helicopters stations and catchments, we secured interoperability and expandability through which various kinds of forest maps could be generated. It is expected that various kinds of forest maps in this study can be widely utilized in the wildfire scenes by combining the maps with big data platforms, such as public data portals and national spatial data infrastructure. Key words: QGIS; QField, wildfire fighting; Korea Forest Service ID: 3623494
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