ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to evaluate the status of information on forest and data transfer and to identify the gaps in information and data flow in forestry sector in Iran. The study evaluated the data and information flow in three levels (control offices level, provincial offices level and organizational offices level) using the document analysis and questioning (interviews and ques...

1 Department of Biology of Organisms and Systems (BOS), University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain, 2 Research Unit of Biodiversity (UMIB, CSIC, UO), Mieres, Spain, 3 FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 4 Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland, 5 Dep. of Agro-forestry, University of Valladolid, Palencia, Spain, ...

To improve the assessment of sustainability situation of production forest management a research project has been designed and being implemented jointly by the International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation “ITC, TROPENBOS International foundation, and the Indonesian Watershed Management Technology Center, in collaboration with Indonesian Eco-Labeling Institute and th...

Concern over the condition of the world’s forests has led to proposals for new standards of sustainable forest management, the argument being that new practices will enhance the overall viability of the forests. Although the initial concerns focused on the problem of high rates of deforestation in the tropics, in recent years much of the attention has been refocused on the temperate forests of ...

High price of chippers and small scale of forestry management area seemed to create a standstill situation of chip utilization system in Japan. By combining the benefits of small scale forestry and low price chippers, a simple and low-cost chip supply model could be established, creating new employments opportunities. The object of this study is to propose the benefits of a chip supply system i...

Forest resource is the material basis of forestry production and forestry sustainable development. Nowadays the concept of “Digital Forestry” is put forward and 3S technology is used in forestry. Therefore the embedded system of forest resource information acquisition has been designed which integrated embedded technology with GIS, 3G wireless communication technology and GPS. After analyzing t...