Rational evaluation of forest road network for sustainable development and protection in Greece

Ioannis Sismanidis; Georgios Tasionas; Antonios Evaggelidakis; Vasileios C. Drosos

doi:10.1117/12.2571148

26 August 2020 Rational evaluation of forest road network for sustainable development and protection in Greece

Ioannis Sismanidis, Georgios Tasionas, Antonios Evaggelidakis, Vasileios C. Drosos

Proceedings Volume 11524, Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020); 115240U (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2571148
Event: Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020), 2020, Paphos, Cyprus

Abstract

Forest opening-up is one of the most important interventions in a forest ecosystem and is carried out by planning and constructing of a transport network (forest roads, skidding tracks, etc.), satisfying not only the need for skidding and transporting of forest products, but also forest protection and recreation activities. The primary concern of a forest engineer should be the compatibility of such infrastructural projects with the environment. For this reason, the assessment criteria for forest infrastructural works are used to examine and evaluate the impact on the natural environment of such projects, as well as to choose the best (compatible) environmental solution from various alternatives before undertaking the project. In the present effort describes the initial steps of a simple Decision Support System that could be applied for the assessment of the activity’s intensity and the forest ecosystem’s absorbing capacity using multicriteria analysis. The system embodies three multi-criteria analysis methods and can be used for a single-project analysis as well as for the evaluation of multiple/alternative opening-up projects. A combination of digital photogrammetry and GIS technology was used to evaluate the compatibility between the general forest infrastructural works and the natural environment. In order to evaluate the compatibility, practical criteria of the intensity of the human influence, as well as criteria of the environment resilience to such interventions were used (Multi-criteria evaluation analysis).

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Ioannis Sismanidis, Georgios Tasionas, Antonios Evaggelidakis, and Vasileios C. Drosos "Rational evaluation of forest road network for sustainable development and protection in Greece", Proc. SPIE 11524, Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020), 115240U (26 August 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2571148

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