Planning forest routes for silvicultural activities using GIS based techniques

In recent decades, exploitation of forest woods, specifically by application of operational machineries, has exerted severe pressure on basic elements of forests, such as soil and water.

This study developed a GIS-based technique for planning main access routes for logging operations in harvesting sites in a manner to minimize environmental damages to soil and water. A model was created within the model builder environment of the ArcMap, version 10, using the existing tools in Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst extensions of the ArcMap.

Nr 83-2011 Publicerad 2011-01-01 00:19