Deputy Head of the Federal Forestry Agency Vyacheslav Spirenkov paid a working visit to the Republic of Tatarstan
Deputy head of the Federal Forestry Agency Vyacheslav Spirenkov paid a working visit to the Republic of Tatarstan. Yesterday, on January 17, he took part in an expanded meeting of the board on the topic “On the results of the work of the Ministry of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan in 2021 and tasks for 2022” and got acquainted with the work of the State Autonomous Institution “Technopark in the field of high technologies “IT Park”.
When visiting the IT Park, he was accompanied by Alexander Ornatsky, Head of the Forestry Department for the Volga Federal District, Ravil Kuzyurov, Minister of Forestry of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustem Yunusov, Deputy Director of State Autonomous Institution “IT Park” for work with residents and external relations, and others.
Vyacheslav Spirenkov was told about the structure of the IT park, its activities, resident companies, ongoing projects, and super services (developed products aimed at improving the quality of life of Tatarstan residents).
Today, the Deputy Head of Rosleskhoz visited ANO VO “Innopolis University”. There he learned about the conditions of study at the university, the main areas of training, the disciplines studied, ongoing research activities, and others.
Along with this, Vyacheslav Spirenkov visited the laboratory of autonomous transport systems and took part in a meeting on the digital transformation of the forestry industry.
At the meeting, the experience of digitalization of forestry in the Republic of Tatarstan was presented to the Deputy Head of Rosleskhoz. In particular, representatives of InnoGeoTech, a subsidiary of Innopolis University, spoke about the creation of digital services for the forest fund of the republic. According to Alexander Khasanov, CEO of the company, since 2019, the forest fund monitoring service has been introduced into the geoportal of Tatarstan and monitors the entire forest fund of the region. During this time, it was possible to record over 6 thousand forest changes - clearings, windblows, etc.
Also, a project was presented to create a service for assessing the forest fund using artificial intelligence technologies, which is currently being implemented based on the Lubyanka forestry in a pilot format, and the republican experience in converting register materials placed on paper into a digital machine-readable form. So, in Tatarstan, more than 3 thousand forest management plans and 18 thousand plot boundaries have already been digitized.
As a result of the meeting, the parties agreed to study the experience of creating and implementing digital services in the forest complex of the republic, including in the context of replication to other regions of the Russian Federation and federal information systems.