Prioritizing forest road upgrade with the use of environmental impact assessment

George Tasionas; Christos Stamatiou; Liampas Sarantis-Angelos; Ioannis Sismanidis; Ioannis Koukoulos; Drosos Vasileios

doi:10.1117/12.2571170

26 August 2020 Prioritizing forest road upgrade with the use of environmental impact assessment

George Tasionas, Christos Stamatiou, Liampas Sarantis-Angelos, Ioannis Sismanidis, Ioannis Koukoulos, Drosos Vasileios

Proceedings Volume 11524, Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020); 115240X (2020) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2571170
Event: Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020), 2020, Paphos, Cyprus

Abstract

Sustainable management of forest resources can only be achieved through a well-organized road network. Road upgrading is a major forest engineering task on an existing road to ensure it is capable of timber harvest or forest fire protection. The purpose of this operation is to bring a currently substandard road up to full standard. Forest road managers considering the technical, economic, and environmental factors that affect forest road not only when they plan forest roads but also when they are going to upgrade them. This paper describes the methodology of decision making when you have limited resources to upgrade the forest road network and you have to prioritize the forest roads that are going to be upgraded. In a Mediterranean island, the timber harvest is not a reason to upgrade a forest road but the fire protection and the growth of tourists that visits a forest ecosystem is. When technical and economic factors are identical the prioritization of forest road upgrade is based on the environmental factors and to the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of each forest road that needs an upgrade. With this work, we suggest that the forest road managers should consider upgrading the forest network based on environmental prioritization in areas with the same characteristics.

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George Tasionas, Christos Stamatiou, Liampas Sarantis-Angelos, Ioannis Sismanidis, Ioannis Koukoulos, and Drosos Vasileios "Prioritizing forest road upgrade with the use of environmental impact assessment", Proc. SPIE 11524, Eighth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2020), 115240X (26 August 2020); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2571170

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