Installation of permanent intensive monitoring plots continues apace
The transForm Agenda’s Experimental Plot Networks project is underway, with the EcoDendro team from the University of Évora installing permanent intensive monitoring plots. Two Quercus suber cork oak plots have been installed, one at Herdade da Mitra and the other in Mogadouro (in partnership with the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro and the APATA […]
PORTICOS Project Implements State-of-the-Art Technology in Digital Wood Assessment
On November 29th, the PORTICOS project team – Digital Wood Assessment at the Factory Entrance, coordinated by Biond, visited the new gantry located at the SONAE Arauco factory in Mangualde. This new gantry, developed by the Swedish company CIND, is based on optical measurements made with stereocameras to estimate the solid volume of logs and […]
A “Better Forest” is being created in the parish of Almagreira
A “Better Forest” is being created in the parish of Almagreira, in Pombal, in an initiative carried out by Biond – Forest Fibers from Portugal, in partnership with the municipal company PMUGest and the local parish council. The actions carried out by Biond have a clear purpose: to fortify a fire-resistant, sustainable and productive forest. […]
GeoFOR project represented at the 10th National Conference on Cartography and Geodesy
The GeoFOR: Geographic Databases and Applications for Forest Management project, coordinated by 2BForest and CoLAB ForestWISE, was represented on November 2nd and 3rd at the X National Conference on Cartography and Geodesy, held at the Polytechnic Institute of Guarda. Isabel Pôças, senior researcher at CoLAB ForestWISE, represented the project underway as part of the transForm […]
Biond held an information session on Good Forestry Practices in Mortágua
On October 27, Biond, a partner of the TransForm Agenda and coordinator of one of the collaborative projects in the region, held an information and dissemination session on good forestry practices. The event took place in Vila Moinhos and dealt with the recovery of eucalyptus stands affected by fires. The session, which took place indoors […]
Coordinators from REN’s forestry service providers contribute to the solution developed with the OPTIVEG project
On October 20, in Ermesinde, REN brought together the coordinators of the company’s Integrated Vegetation Management work. The aim was to raise awareness of the OPTIVEG project and the solution that REN is developing to support decisions aimed at increasing the productivity of Integrated Vegetation Management operations. OPTIVEG is one of the three projects under […]
“Mobile Applications for Forest Inventory” opened the Forest Knowledge Academy’s first training course
On October 11 and 12, the first training session was held as part of Agenda transForm’s Project 5.1 – Forest Knowledge Academy. The training, led by Mariana Amaro and Pedro Britto, from CoLAB ForestWISE, on Mobile Applications for Forest Inventory, was attended by 14 participants and aimed to introduce the Agenda’s partners to the new […]
CENTRODEC in the spotlight at the ESRI Portugal Meeting
The work carried out by REN in preventing and fighting forest fires, using technology and innovative solutions for greater resilience of energy infrastructures dominated REN’s participation in the 20th ESRI User Meeting (EUE), on October 17. From the Rural Fire Alert System, developed in 2017 with ESRI tools, to the innovative infrastructure monitoring system developed […]
FORMEC 2023: International Symposium on Forest Mechanization
Pedro Britto, Senior Researcher at CoLAB ForestWISE, took part in the International Symposium on Forest Mechanization, from September 20 to 22, where he presented three projects from the transForm Agenda, within the scope of digitalization and Forest 4.0 for the decarbonization of the sector. The first project concerned the “Challenges and opportunities of using digital […]
Electric Vehicle Project presented at Open Base Day
On September 17, the Association for the Development of Industrial Aerodynamics (ADAI), a partner in the P2.5 project: Boosting electric motorization in the forestry sector in Portugal, as part of the TransForm Agenda, had a space dedicated to Electric Vehicles at the Open Base Day in Monte Real. This project aims to create an Electric […]
