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Miriam Soto, Government of La RiojaJosé Luis Tomé, Agresta S. Coop.
Brussels, April 26th 2018
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La Rioja Region and
it´s forest sector
More than
amazing wine
> 175.000 hectares of forest
5.000 km2
60% hard woods
(without market!)
40% soft woods
(pine, douglas-fir,
poplar)
170.000 m3/year
80% in public forest
Harvest
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Availability of raw material
A key question for forest-based
industries
Increasing risk of forest fires
How to improve forest fire prevention?
Challenges
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Availability of
raw material
Where is it?How much we have?
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Availability of raw
material?
Dependency on local resources:
What about our future in La Rioja?
Uncertainty about the exact amount of
poplar available
Perception that raw material can be a
problem
700 poplar´s
foresters in La Rioja
REPRESENTS HALF OF THE TOTAL
INCOMES FROM THE SALE OF WOOD
- TOTAL: 3,5 M€ per year,
Poplar 1,75 M€
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Increase of forest fires risk
Forest fires: important challenge in Mediterranean areas
Impacts on:• Environment
• Society
• Economy
Fire behaviour:• Weather
• Topography
• Fuels
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Opportunities
LiDAR data is now available in La Rioja
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Regional Forest Inventories
based on LIDAR
Cost-effective
high resolution and
continuous information
Quick and easy-to-use
The actions:
1.- Regional Wood Stock
More and better management plans
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2.- Trend Analysis of
Poplar stands in La Rioja
1999 2017
LANDSAT TIME SERIES
2007
2011
20092008
Riverbank
poplars
Production
poplar
plantations
CLEAR CUT
MAPPINGFOREST TYPE MAPPING
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3.- Map of fuel
models
Input in forest fire
simulations
• High spatial resolution on fuel
information
• Critical fire behavior
predictions
• High vulnerability areas
Useful for forest fire prevention
and suppression
• Strategic fuel treatment
planning
• Resource optimization
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Conclusions
The objectives and methodologies of this
project can be transferred to other
regions in Europe because:
An increasing number of European
countries have national programs to
capture LiDAR data
Most forest-based industries in many
regions don´t have good information
about real raw material availability and
its evolution
Not only Mediterranean areas will need
high resolution fuel cartography
models (climate change)
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More information:www.forest-lidarioja.info
[email protected] / [email protected]
This operational group has been promoted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Environment of
the Government of La Rioja and co-financed by FEADER, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and
Environment, and the Government of La Rioja
thanks for your
attention !