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Is it possibile to improve the quality of basic methods and data for sustainable forest management planning in Bosnia and Herzegovina?

The sustainable management of forest ecosystems in accordance with the principles and concepts of sustainable development implies planning using previous knowledge and experience, as well as modern methods and technologies. Integration of all decision parameters results in a large quantity of qualitative and quantitative data whose analog processing has not followed the trend of accelerated development for several decades. Geoinformation systems serve as a tool to ensure more accurate, efficient and faster implementation of the entire process that precedes the adoption of regulations for sustainable management of forest ecosystems. The digitization process of existing analog maps using ArcGIS 10.8 is described in this paper. The digitization of vegetation and soil maps were used for spatial GIS and statistical analyses. An example of analysis is the automatization when defining management classes as the basic spatial and classification units for operational planning in the BiH forest management system. We can conclude that the use of available modern, state-of-the-art GIS techniques contributes to a better understanding of geographical and spatial forests distribution. This is important in both environmental planning and the development of forest management plans. Additionally, a systematic approach in the establishment of GIS databases for forest areas would achieve considerable savings of time and money in forest inventories and management. All available data and results of GIS analyses could be used as a base for more accurate information in decision making due to the fact that forest managers could take into account detailed three-dimensional characteristics of forests in real time.

forest management ; sustainable forest management ; digitization ; maps ; management classes ; GIS ; GIS analyses

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