The users in forestry are active in Forest management, Forest Services, Commodities, Logging industry, Wood, paper and pulp industry, Forest policy, Forest machinery. They also include Forest Policy makers. Use in forestry: Understand depletion due to natural causes (fires and infestations) or human activity (clear-cutting, burning, land conversion), and monitoring of health and growth for effective commercial exploitation and conservation. Forests are a resource that is harvested all over the Globe for different purposes like construction or heating. Additionally, the forests represent an ecosystem that provides various ecosystem services. Proper management is a key to a healthy forestry industry that has to be aligned well with global environmental management activities. There is a need to avoid deforestation and forest degradation, keep the environmental impact of forestry within bounds, be aware of changes in the carbon balance. Economically relevant is especially a good understading of forest types, forest damage due to storms or insects, as well as wildfires. A threat to the environment results from illegal forest activities.
Apply the output of EO/GI tools to decisions in everyday operations
Choose a viable strategy for forest operations
Understand the health of the forests
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