Digitalization of State Inventory of Forests as a Tool of Updating the Reforestation Fund

Abstract

Monitoring data are the basis for making management decisions, including those in the field of forest conservation and restoration. In this context, it is relevant to conduct research aimed at improving forest inventory operations with the use of Earth remote sensing methods, to solve the problems of reforestation and state forest inventory. The purpose of the study is to show the need for digitalization of the state forest inventory using Earth remote sensing methods. The results of the practical use of such methods for updating data on the reforestation fund are presented by the case of five forest districts of the Irkutsk region. When collecting, processing and presenting the research results, methods of aerospace monitoring and interpretation of space images of the Earth were used. Materials processing modules in remote sensing systems and geographic information systems were also used, which make it possible to assess the quality of automated classification. As a result of the study, the necessity of using Earth remote sensing methods in order to increase the efficiency of management decisions in the field of reforestation was substantiated. It was also proved that for forest regions with significant forest areas, digitalization of the state forest inventory is the most effective and low-cost method of obtaining relevant, complete and reliable data on the state of forest lands.