Forest Monitoring Service

The Forest Monitoring Service provides monitoring of forestry activities, such as clearcuts, and detects windfalls, along with annual monitoring for less visible forest damage, including excess water, insects, disease, and fire, across the Baltics. Forest health data for 2024 shows only the latest risk areas that emerged during that specific year, i.e., during the vegetation season from May to October. The 2024 data does not include damage or risk areas that occurred in 2023 or earlier. This service reduces the need for manual surveys, allowing human resources to focus on damage prevention and enabling timely updates to the State Forest Registry.

The following 2 scenarios are implemented in the web application. Scenario 1 uses Sentinel satellite imagery with 10 m resolution and Scenario 2 uses PlanetScope imagery with 3 m resolution data.

Scenario 1: Automated clear-cut monitoring system which allows user to upload forest plots with attributes, see current status of forest (%, ha), forest area (%, ha), damaged area (%, ha), previous forest monitoring date and change since last monitoring time. Users can evaluate area and results after receiving alerts using various spatial reference data in the web application and download the result in GeoJSON and CSV.

Scenario 2: Automated forest health risk monitoring (clear-cuts, pests, windfalls, fires, illnesses, increased moisture, etc.). Users can specify forest plots and time period (year) for analysis and receive risk areas in the web application, evaluate area and results using various spatial reference data in the web application and download the result in GeoJSON and CSV.