Forest Protection and Development Fund, professional training and plan implementation for 2022
(Baonghean.vn) - On December 17, Nghe An Forest Protection and Development Fund held a conference to train on professional work and deploy the 2022 plan. Attending were representatives of relevant departments, branches, forest owners, and district-level payment organizations.
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Overview of the conference on professional training and plan implementation for 2022. Photo: Hoang Vinh |
The training conference will be held for 2 days (from December 17 to 18) and will focus on the following contents: Exploiting and processing remote sensing images; Using images to review forest status; Regulations on payment maps.forest environmental services; Instructions on using some main tools of Mapinfo software in map building; Policy on editing and updating maps based on field results; Searching and selecting objects on the map; Editing news pages... Training content presented by Dr. Nguyen Van Thi - Head of the Department of Remote Sensing Applications in Forestry, Institute of Forest Ecology and Environment.
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Mr. Nguyen Khac Lam - Director of Nghe An Province Forest Protection and Development Fund read the opening speech of the Conference. Photo: Hoang Vinh |
This is one of the timely and meaningful actions ofForest Protection and Development FundTo support forest owners, district-level payment organizations and stakeholders using Mapinfo and QGIS software combined with Planet satellite image sources to standardize and build a map layer of forest status increase and decrease, convert the increase/decrease layer from vector format to MBtiles format and then upload it to smartphones and tablets with Android and IOS operating systems using apps that support reading MBtiles format map files to monitor changes in forest status in forest environmental service payments.
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Dr. Nguyen Van Thi - Head of the Department of Remote Sensing Applications in Forestry, Institute of Forest Ecology and Environment, guides the use of some main tools of Mapinfo software in map building. Photo: Hoang Vinh |
Also at the Conference, relevant sectors, forest owners, and district-level payment organizations will focus on developing, discussing, contributing ideas, and agreeing on the content of the 2022 action plan.
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Using photos to check the current status of forests. Photo: Hoang Vinh |