As was reported at the University of technology of laser scanning is already used in road construction, construction monitoring and condition assessment of roads throughout the life cycle. Mayor Anatoly Lokot said that the new technology will be used in the consideration of trees in the urban forests of Novosibirsk. In particular, the counting will be carried out using laser scanning, GPS-navigation and imagery from space. To conduct the assessment, the municipality signed a contract with the NGO “Ecological safety”.
One of the priorities of the development of Novosibirsk is the development of green areas, primarily forests. For further work the municipality requires accurate maps of forests and the incorporation of their territories in the General plan. New maps of forest inventory will be prepared in accordance with inventory – actual border of forest areas must exactly match those specified in the document. According to hall, is for two years, during this time researched almost 30 percent of the territory of Novosibirsk – a part of the city is occupied by green plantations.
at the same time, in Novosibirsk the program on the preservation of green areas. In the framework of the inventory of all city public spaces – parks, squares, alleys, places of rest of citizens. The result will be updated in the base areas, which is 2017. Then it was included 237 territories. By 2020, there are 241 – for each passport will be prepared. In particular, at this stage will be refined metrics such as area, shape, condition and number of items of improvement. “All green areas will be reflected in the new edition of the General plan of the city. This means that no building, the use of these areas for any other purposes will be possible. That is, they are assigned a status of green areas”, – said Anatoly Elbow.
in this document, as emphasized at the city hall, will include the town forests, as they belong to another category of land, and is reflected in separate documents of forest management.
the forest Inventory is conducted every ten years – during this time in a forest there is a significant change, and the economic activities become irrelevant, there must be a reassignment. In the process of taxation is measured by height, diameter of trees determined by their species composition and the age, condition, counted the cubic capacity. 256 all investigated characteristics.
