ForestRisk
Remote sensing based system for forest risk factor monitoring
Prime Contractor: Institute of Electronics and Computer Science
Cooperation partner 2:Latvian State Forest Research Institute “Silava”
Cooperation partner 2: SIA “Baltic Satellite Service”
Agreement with Central Financing and Contracting Agency (CFCA) No.1.1.1.1/21/A/40
Scientific manager: Dr.sc.comp. Ints Mednieks
Scientific manager of the Cooperation partner 1: Mg.silv. Jānis Donis
Scientific manager of the Cooperation partner 2: Mg.geogr. Ilze Bargā
Time frame: from March 1, 2022 to November 30, 2023
Project objective: to develop software tools for assessment, monitoring and alerting of forest risk factors using satellite and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based remote sensing .
Main activities of the project include:
- Development of methods, algorithms and a prototype system for screening of forests from satellite (synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and multispectral (MS)) data for detection of areas suspected to be at the risk of disturbances.
- Performing field surveys and collection of very high resolution (VHR) data of forest areas under the risk of disturbances using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
- Development of methods, algorithms and a prototype technology for detection of forest areas under the risk of disturbances from VHR remote sensing data and for identifying and alerting on potential risk factors using auxiliary data.
