Tatarstan forests will be observed from space
Today, the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan hosted a presentation of special geoinformation services developed for the ministry within the framework of the “Digital Model of the Republic of Tatarstan” project. With the help of images from space, the program will recognize changes in the forest fund, such as revealing of felling, windfall, windbreaks, shrinking of tree vegetation under the influence of diseases and pests, hydrological and climatic changes, identifying of landfills, quarries, building on forest land and forest fires. Also with the help of the program it will be possible to compare the boundaries of the planned and actual logging areas. The program will facilitate the work of forest rangers on the sites and employees of the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan. The introduction of the service will increase the number of fixed violations in the forest fund, increase the responsiveness to the emergent violations, reduce the number of ineffective site visits, and, as a result, increase the economic efficiency of supervisory activities by optimizing costs. The planned implementation date is spring of 2019, but today a prototype was shown and examples of intermediate results are given. The project "Digital Model of the Republic of Tatarstan" is implemented by the team of the Innopolis University.