MONTE DIGITAL Operational Group: Innovation in sustainable forest management. Methodological proposal for forest digitization to obtain high-precision dasometric parameters.
- Type Operational group
- Execution 2018 -2020
- Assigned Budget 261.763,75 €
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Castilla - La Mancha; Comunitat Valenciana
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
Description
MONTE DIGITAL promotes an innovative methodology aimed at digitizing forests using Mobile Terrestrial Lidar for the inventory and monitoring of forest stands with high precision and low cost, facilitating decision-making in forest management. The final result is software that obtains both dendro and dasometric parameters (AID-FOREST), working fully automatically and without the need to preprocess Lidar point clouds.
Objectives
- Validate the reliability of the inventory using Mobile Terrestrial Lidar (LTM) at the sample plot scale, using standard commercial software to process the point cloud obtained using LTM.
- Generate algorithms for calculating dasometric variables based on the point cloud integrated into artificial intelligence-based software, which will be fully automated.
- Application and validation of the algorithms at a larger scale (canton), evaluating the unlimited processing capacity of very large surfaces.
Results
- Obtaining dasometric parameters using traditional inventory techniques and the LTM technique. Quantifying total costs and comparing the two techniques.
- Development of AID-FOREST software specifically for processing point clouds from LTM at two scales: plot and canton. Validation of the AID-FOREST software and comparison with commercial software.
- Complete inventory of the cantons based on the LTM digitization of the two forests studied, processed using AID-FOREST software at the canton level, and total costs obtained. The software proved to be fully automatic, with no limitations on the forest area to be inventoried and extremely high accuracy.
Contact information
- Coordinator/entity name: UCLM
- Coordinator/entity email: angela.gonzalez@uclm.es
Collaborators
- Junta Administrativa de Bienes de Fuertescusa (JABF)
Beneficiaries
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM, grupo MARFO)
- Digital Elevation Models (Dielmo 3D S.L.)
- Naturaleza y Tecnología de la Mancha S.L. (Naturtec)
Outsourced
- Capazita Innovación y Tecnología S.L.
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