WG4
Leaders
WG4
Description of the WG4
WG4 is working on the application part of the Action. WG4 focuses on the usage of novel terrestrial-based technologies and techniques within precision forestry. Mainly on forest stands and individual tree parameters, that could be used for forest inventory, monitoring, and management. To identify all possibilities of usage of such technologies, there is close cooperation with WG1-3. Based on the protocols and identified possibilities by WG1-3, WG4 will synchronize the data acquisition and processing together with possible data sources from other remote sensing techniques for the estimation of forest stands and trees parameters for forest inventory, monitoring, and management.
Furthermore, close cooperation and dialogue will be made with practitioners from the forestry sector across Europe. WG4 will identify possibilities to implement these technologies within the forestry sector at the national level. To achieve such a task careful analyses of the current state of forest inventory protocols at the national level will be done. Therefore, an important task of the WG4 together with WG6 will be dissemination with target stakeholders.
Tasks
WG4-T1: Identifying and proposing suitable forest stands and individual tree parameters for forest inventory, management, and monitoring purposes suitable for surveying by novel terrestrial-based technologies.
WG4-T2: Identifying and evaluating best-suited methodologies and technologies for various forest inventory, management, and monitoring purposes in cooperation with WG1-3.
WG4-T3: Creating general protocols for estimation of identified parameters.
WG4-T4: Recognizing important stakeholders and dissemination with stakeholders in cooperation with WG6.
Milestone
WG4-M1: Workshop and forum focused on stakeholders.