Forest

A Ministra da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, Luciana Santos, confirmou nesta última terça-feira (28), anunciou que o Brasil quer começar a construção de um novo satélite do Programa de Satélites de Recursos Terrestres (CVBERS), com a China. De acordo com a ministra, a construção deve trazer de volta ao Brasil, o papel de protagonista perdido ...

Investigadores de las universidades de Málaga, Jaén y la Pablo Olavide han estudiado los efectos de los episodios de sequedad en el pinsapar más grande del Parque Nacional de la Sierra de las Nieves, ubicado en Yunquera (Málaga), y los resultados, publicados en la revista científica ‘Frontiers in Plant Science’, han sido “sorprendentes”. Para llevar ...

In 2007, Ecuador’s then-president, Rafael Correa, announced an ambitious plan to prevent oil drilling in Yasuní National Park, one of the world’s most biodiverse areas and home to the Indigenous Waorani people, 4,000 plant species, and 300 mammal species, several of them threatened. Correa called on other countries to help Ecuador keep the area intact, ...

Aerial photos taken high above Rwanda are helping scientists monitor trees and determine how much carbon is locked in the verdant resource. The approach, detailed in a newly published study, revealed that most of the country’s trees lie outside its forests, although conservation and reforestation efforts need to address all ecosystems. Inside or outside forests, ...

Ein Forschungsteam am Geographischen Institut der Universität Göttingen ist mit dem Teilprojekt „Fernerkundung“ an dem Verbundvorhaben „ResEt-Fi – Wegbereiter Wiederbewaldung: Regionales Flächenmanagement“ beteiligt. Dieser Verbund will Werkzeuge und Konzepte entwickeln, um die Planung und Umsetzung der Wiederbewaldung zu unterstützen. In dem Göttinger Teilprojekt werden in den kommenden drei Jahren Datensätze zur Beschreibung des Mikroklimas und ...

Um levantamento inédito do MapBiomas identificou 2.869 pistas de pouso na Amazônia, segundo a entidade, mais do que o dobro das pistas contidas nos registros da Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil (Anac). Pelas coordenadas geográficas, 804 pistas de pouso, ou 28% do total, estão dentro de alguma área protegida: 320 (11%) ficam no interior de ...

O Modelo Digital de Exploração Florestal (Modeflora), tecnologia lançada pela Embrapa Acre, completa 15 anos, com adoção em 100% dos planos de manejo do estado do Acre. A ferramenta confere maior eficiência ao planejamento e execução das operações de campo, proporciona economia no processo de produção e permite o monitoramento das etapas de manejo, além ...

Purdue University’s Jingjing Liang has received a two-year, $870,000 grant from the World Resources Institute to map global forest carbon accumulation rates. “To accurately capture the carbon accumulation rates of forested ecosystems across the world has always been a challenging task, mostly because doing so requires lots of ground-sourced data, and currently such data are ...

Intact forests are important climate regulators and harbors of biodiversity, but they are rapidly disappearing. Agriculture is commonly considered to be the major culprit behind forest loss, but the authors of a new paper published on January 20 in the journal One Earth show that agriculture isn’t solely to blame. The researchers used multi-source geographic ...

Trimble is working with the University of British Columbia (UBC) to establish a state-of-the-art Trimble Technology Lab at UBC’s Forest Sciences Center. UBC is a global center for teaching, learning and research, consistently ranked among the top 20 public universities in the world. The new lab at UBC will be the first forestry-focused lab for ...

New York City launched a comprehensive map showing the location, species, maintenance status and other information of about 800,000 trees located in city parks and along its streets, the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation announced last week. The tool builds on a previous map that listed 650,000 street trees. In addition to helping users ...

Mais de 270 instituições públicas do Brasil já realizaram adesão ao Programa Brasil MAIS, coordenado pela Polícia Federal, que disponibiliza imagens de satélites diárias de alta resolução da operadora Planet e alertas de detecção de mudanças via Plataformas Web da SCCON Geospacial. O Projeto é case de sucesso global da operadora Planet pela inovação e ...

la Universidad de Salamanca participa a través de su grupo de investigación TIDOP, dirigido por el catedrático Diego González Aguilera y radicado en la Escuela Politécnica Superior de Ávila, en el proyecto CHAMELEON cuyo fin es, “la modernización del entorno rural europeo mediante el uso de drones y Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación ...

Quantum-Systems GmbH, an innovative developer, designer and manufacturer of advanced unmanned aerial systems (UAS), and SKYLAB, the fully-digitalized forest management provider, today announced a partnership to help forestry customers maximize productivity and reduce costs. Combining the state-of-the-art hardware from Quantum-Systems and the sophisticated forestry and plantation management software from SKYLAB, customers have access to a ...

The National Forest Company (NFC) has awarded Cadcorp the contract to provide Cadcorp SIS Desktop, and cloud hosted Cadcorp SIS WebMap and Cadcorp Spatial Database Service. The contract includes a variety of services such as application management, support, and training. The National Forest covers 200 square miles of the Midlands. Since 1995, over 9 million ...

Norwegian scientists are using mobile lidar to see how individual trees are connected with each other, to help innovate its forest sector and realize efficiency gains. Led by The Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO), the SFI SmartForest aims to bring industry 4.0 to the sector over an 8-year period. Focusing on silviculture, forest operations, ...

The size and complexity of the Brazilian territory, especially in the Amazon region, has historically plagued institutions, like the country’s Federal Police, with challenges around effective response to environmental crimes and illicit activities. To improve their operations, these agencies needed a remote sensing dataset that would complement their field work, allowing them to take timely ...

La Comisión Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE) avanza en el desarrollo de un sistema de monitoreo de cambios de cobertura del suelo para dar soporte a la conservación del Bosque Nativo Argentino. El proyecto, denominado MonTeS (Monitoreo Temporal Satelital de los Bosques de Argentina), surgió a partir de un llamado de oportunidad realizado en junio ...

Uma pesquisa realizada pela Embrapa, no âmbito do projeto Rural Sustentável – Cerrado (veja mais informações em quadro no final desta matéria), mapeou o risco de desmatamento e mensurou o desmatamento evitado no bioma Cerrado em 101 municípios de quatro estados. A informação é uma importante ferramenta para auxiliar os governos federal, estaduais e municipais ...

Sounds of the Forest ha creado un mapa (que puedes encontrar pinchando aquí) con bosques de todo el mundo con sonidos ambiente en el que se puede oír de todo, desde las hojas de los árboles hasta animales de todo el planeta, como los lémures de Madagascar o al ruiseñor de Eslovaquia. Es decir, se ...

A thin brown line east of the Ucayali River snakes through an expanse of green rainforest in eastern Peru. The road—originally called OX1 and now UC-105—first appears in Landsat satellite imagery in 1987. Landsat images indicate that the surrounding forest stayed mostly intact for more than two decades, despite the activity of oil and logging ...

The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) Faculty of Science have signed an MOU for collaboration on leveraging geospatial data and technologies for carbon estimation research in Singapore. The MOU was signed by Mr Colin Low, Chief Executive of SLA, and Professor Sun Yeneng, Dean of the NUS Faculty of ...

How lightning travels from the sky to the ground inspired the concept behind a new algorithmic approach to digitally separate individual trees from their forests in automatic forest mapping. “When lightning travels from the sky to the ground, it finds the path of least resistance through the atmosphere,” said Joshua Carpenter , a Ph.D. student ...

Each data-gathering method has advantages and limitations. National forest inventories (NFIs), which include biomass estimates and are conducted in most of the world’s countries, are based on field plots. But monitoring those field plots is costly, so the number is limited, and results must be averaged out over the country, resulting in less-precise calculations. Satellites ...

For decades, satellite images have clearly captured how rampant deforestation is destroying the Amazon rainforest. But what about the trees that remain standing? What do their dimensions tell us about our planet’s future? Quite a lot, in fact. Since 2018, a first-of-its-kind mission by NASA has deployed lasers mounted aboard the International Space Station to ...

Venezuela perdió un promedio anual de138.493 hectáreas de áreas boscosas entre 2016 y 2021, una deforestación que equivale a tres veces la extensión de su capital. Pero lo más preocupante no es la extensión perdida, sino que la principal afectación está en los bosques naturales sin intervención previa. “La pérdida de bosques naturales en Venezuela ...

Environmental managers will have a powerful new resource for helping our forests survive and recover from wildfire, drought and disease. UC Davis ecologist Derek Young is leading a team to develop the Open Forest Observatory, a pioneering project combining drone photography and forest mapping with machine learning, remote sensing, big-data crunching and open information sourcing. ...

A new web service by a California-based mapping company shows detailed information on wildfires in real time. It shows information like nearby population size, climate and drought conditions to try to give people context on wildfires around them. Chris Ferner is a wildland fire specialist for the company. She said Esri developed Wildfire Aware to ...

The European Space Agency’s Biomass satellite may be up to the job. The upcoming mission, which is planned to launch in early 2024, will monitor Earth’s forests in unprecedented detail. The satellite consists of a 40-foot-wide reflector suspended on a boom over its rectangular body — the whole thing looks like a ginormous umbrella shielding ...

Globally, there was a net loss of 817,000 square kilometers (315,000 square miles) in forest area between 1960 and 2019, according to a new study. That’s nearly 10% more than the size of Borneo, the world’s third-largest island. The study showed that most forest loss occurred in “lower-income” countries as their economies grew, which are ...