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[EN VIDÉO] The forest mapped in 3D like never before Outsight, a leader in 3D Spatial Intelligence, has developed an automated solution capable of real-time 360° forest mapping. The solution uses lidar technology to locate each tree as the forest agent moves, who can then digitally tag it with additional information (tree species, presence of insects, etc.). © Outsight
In France, since the start of themeteorological summer — understand from 1is June — some 40,000 hectares of forest went up in smoke. This is incredibly more than the less than 2,000 hectares burned at the same period in 2021. But infinitely less than the 81.7 million hectares of forest that disappeared in the world between 1960 and 2019.
According to the calculations of researchers from Center for Biodiversity and Climate Change, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute (FFPRI, Japan) and given the parallel increase in world population, the forest area per inhabitant has thus decreased by more than 60% over the same time interval. It was 1.4 hectares in 1960. It was only 0.5 hectares in 2019.
A forest transition in progress
Beyond the direct loss in biodiversity represented by the deforestationremember that the forest also contributes to limiting the anthropogenic global warming by sequestering part of our emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). To be more down to earth, the forest also supports at least 1.6 billion people in the world…
The researchers also confirm the theory that a forest transition is underway. They point out that the losses today occur mainly in low-income countries. On the side of tropics. In higher income countries, on the other hand, in the extratropics, forest gains are observed. Hence the need, on the one hand, to support low-income countries to help them improve their capacity to minimize their forest losses. And on the other hand, to encourage high-income countries to reduce their dependence on imported tropical forest products.
Primary rainforest The humidity is high and promotes the growth of epiphytes, those plants that grow on anything, trees, rocks or electric wires. On the ground, the light is rarer, which suits the ferns well. It’s hot. We are in a rainforest © Mrs Brown, Pixabay, DP
Taiga landscape in russia Tall trees, large expanses of water from melting snow and ice, cool temperatures: that’s the taiga. It extends to the north of the planet, as far as the Arctic, from Siberia to Alaska via the Scandinavian countries and Canada. © Baldr80, Pixabay, DP
Eucalyptus forest in Australia An Australian bush landscape with two-tiered flora: scrub and herbaceous plants on the ground and, above, trees with hard or thorny leaves, such as eucalypts. © 12019, Pixabay, DP
Rambouillet forest The Rambouillet forest, located in the south of the Yvelines department, is one of the main forest areas in Île-de-France. It is a wooded area of 200 km², including 14,550 ha of state forest, which extends over the territory of 29 municipalities. The stand consists mainly of oaks, up to 68%, and softwoods (Scots pine and laricio pine) for 25%. This massif has ponds, rocky areas, stretches of sand, valleys and waterfalls. Part of the forest is in the regional natural park of the upper Chevreuse valley. © Pline GNU Free Documentation License version 1.2
Danemark : Grib forest Grib Forest in North Sealand, Denmark. © Malene Thyssen GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
Madagascar : Spiny forest Spiny forest in Ifaty, Madagascar, composed of adansonia (baobab), alluaudia procera (Madagascar ocotillo) … © JialiangGao GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
Italy: Forest of Cansiglio The forest of Cansiglio in autumn Italy © Umberto Salvagnin Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
New Zealand: Paraparaumu Reserve Forest of (Rhopalostylis sapida) Paraparaumu Reserve New Zealand © Pseudopanax Public domain
Panama : The Friendship International Park Panama Parc international La Amistad © Dirk Van der Made GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.
Germany: Forest of Urwald Sababurg © Szent István – Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
Wales: Llyn Crafnant Forest In North Wales, the forest of Llyn Cratnant Erwlas / Flickr – Creative Common License (by-nc-sa 2.0)
Belouve Forest According to Wikipedia: The Bélouve forest is a forest on the island of La Réunion, a French overseas department in the Indian Ocean. It occupies a perched plateau located on the edge of the natural circus occupied by the municipality of Salazie, on the territory of which it is nevertheless located. It can only be reached by a cul-de-sac road that crosses the forest of Bébour coming from La Plaine-des-Palmistes or from the north by a steep hiking trail rising from the islet of Hell-Bourg. It is one of the forests of Reunion which produces the highland tamarind wood used in cabinetmaking. The Grande Mare in the Bélouve forest with the high tamarind woods and the rampart of the Plaine des Lianes forest in the background. Louis Volant / Flickr – Creative Common License (by-nc-sa 2.0)
A rainforest – Mexico City, Mexico A coniferous rainforest in Mexico State, Mexico © Wikipedia
Hoh Forest Hoh Forest in the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State © Goldom GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
Sitka National Historic Park, Alaska Sitka National Historic Park, Alaska © Willow&Monk at Flickr Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Scots pine forest Pinus sylvestris (Pino Silvestre) © Clément Godbarge GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2
Scots pine male inflorescences Scots pine male inflorescences © Beentree Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported license
Forest Netherlands Delabrata / Flickr – Licence Creative Common (by-nc-sa 2.0)
Forest in Spain Forest in autumn near Segovia Spain Cuellar / Flickr – Creative Common License (by-nc-sa 2.0)
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