USING NEW GENERATION MOBILE GIS TO PERFORM FIELD FOREST RECOGNITION

Abstract

Annotation. Formation of sustainable forest management is one of the main tasks of forestry. Sustainable forest management refers to a purposeful, long-term, economically beneficial relationship between humans and forest ecosystems. Effective forest inventory and forestry management is impossible without appropriate information support. The rapid development of computer technology and information systems, the emergence of GIS - as information systems that ensure the use of spatially distributed multi-temporal information - has led to the need to radically change the entire system of information support for forest inventory and forestry management and create a specialized geographic information system for solving forestry problems.

The article discusses the practical use of geographic information systems in forest management and forestry. The contradiction and shortcomings of modern software tools are noted. Much attention is given to the analysis and improvement with the prospects for further use of geographic information systems in the forestry industry. The functions of GIS that are important for certain areas of forestry and their stages are considered in detail - forest management, drawing up forest maps, measuring the boundaries of land plots, logging operations, planning forestry activities, construction, and reforestation.