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.
Monitor the forest focuses on regular and periodic measurement of certain parameters of forests (physical, chemical, and biological) to determine baselines to detect and observe changes over time. Typical applications include to assess deforestation and forest degradation, assess forest damage due to storms or insects, to monitor forest resources, detect illegal forest activities, assess the environmental impact of forerstry, and to monitor the forest carbon content. Moderate resolution sensors have been used to map forests at large scales. Modern very high resolution optical sensors provide enough spatial and spectral detail to map individual trees. Further sensors for forest monitoring include SAR and LIDAR. Integration of optical sensors, LIDAR and in-situ measurements seems an accurate method to achieve third dimension forest mapping.