International Summer School June 2017 Forest Planning and Management Training in New Tools and Techniques Waterford Institute of Technology Waterford, Ireland 19-23 June 2017
PROGRAMME OVERVIEW Sunday, 18/06 Evening Arrival Monday, 19/06 Morning Concepts in forest management planning Talks on forest and property level tools 2 Tuesday, 20/06 All day Field training: Measurements and demonstrations Wednesday, 21/06 Morning Talks on stand and tree level tools Laboratory training on planning and forecasting Thursday, 22/06 Morning Laboratory training on planning tools Laboratory training on stand and tree tools Friday, 23/06 Morning Discussion, feedback and group work Depart Photo: Nick McCarthy (WIT)
DETAILED PROGRAMME Summer school on Sunday 18 June Arrival Dinner (own plans) June 19, 2017 Welcome by Nick McCarthy (WIT) Monday 19 June 3 Concepts in forest management planning Forest planning (strategic) Forest growth modelling background Risk management Data collection in support of forest planning (tactical) Felipe Bravo (iufor-university of Valladolid) Kevin Black (UCD) Céline Meredieu (INRA) Barry Gardiner (EFIATLANTIC) Glen Murphy (Waiariki Institute of Technology) Talks on forest and property level tools: Economic tools and support systems Risk modelling Forest management and landscape planning (e.g., GIS, visualisation tools) Integrated management systems (optimisation and planning) Landscape tools (e.g., CAPSIS-SIMMEM) John Casey (Teagasc)) Barry Gardiner (EFIATLANTIC) Myles McDonncadha (Silvalytics) Frank Barrett & Fergus Moore (DAFF) Liam Malone (Coillte) Ola Eriksson (SLU), Henry Phillips (Forest Solutions) Christophe Orazio (EFIATLANTIC) Summer School Dinner
Tuesday 20 June & GROUP 1 Field Training: Planning and forecasting Strategic (data collection for forest planning and management) Mapping forests Daniel MacInerney (Coillte) (e.g., forest inventories, surveys, GPS, roads, tree locations) John Redmond (DAFM) Enda Nolan (Coastway Surveys Ireland) 4 Using GIS and planning tools in the field (checking and updating information) Remote sensing (e.g., aerial photography, LiDAR, satellite data) and testing against ground truth GROUP 2 Field Training: Stand and tree tools Operational (tariffs, measuring & valuing stands pre-harvest, assessing species suitability): Hand-held tools (e.g., hypsometers, digital callipers, smart phone applications such as TRESTIMA, etc.) Measurement using terrestrial LiDAR (stem form, tree volume, product mix, etc.) Measuring timber quality (e.g., acoustic tools) Site characterisation training (e.g., Ecological Site Classification) Myles McDonncadha (Silvalytics) Juan Suarez (FR) Enda Nolan (Coastway Surveys Ireland) Juan Suarez (FR) Michael Pedini & Nick McCarthy (WIT), Liam Malone (Coillte) Enda Keane (TreeMetrics) Elspeth Macdonald (UHI) Luke Kranjz (Teagasc) Duncan Ray & Alice Broome (FR) GROUPS 1 & 2 Demonstrations Stand level measurement using drones and scanners Harvester operations and harvest monitoring (SATMODO project) Demonstrators Enda Nolan (Coastway Surveys Ireland) Liam Malone (Coillte) Barbecue Dinner
Wednesday 21 June Talks on stand and tree level tools: Use of existing stand growth simulators (e.g., GROWFOR) Wood quality assessment (e.g., acoustic tools) Pre-harvest data collection and optimisation software (e.g., terrestrial LiDAR) Tracking harvest material (e.g., bar-coding or genetic tagging) GROUP 1 Laboratory Training: Planning and forecasting National Forest Inventory and forecasting Decision support for licencing and regulation of the forest sector in Ireland Paddy Purser (Purser Tarleton Russell Ltd.) Elspeth Macdonald (UHI) Luke Kranjz (Teagasc) Enda Keane (Treemetrics) Glen Murphy (Waiariki Institute of Technology) Anders Lycken and/or Johan Skog (SP) (t.b.c.) John Redmond (DAFM) Cian O'Connor (Teagasc) Frank Barrett and Fergus Moore (DAFF) 5 GROUP 2 Laboratory Training: Stand and tree tools Site quality, yield and species choice Dinner (own plans) Duncan Ray & Alice Broome (FR)
Thursday 22 June ALL DAY : Poster displays by commercial companies GROUP 1 Laboratory Training: Planning tools Accessing satellite and airborne data and GIS mapping Risk modelling GROUP 2 Laboratory Training: Stand and tree tools Stand growth simulation (e.g. GROWFOR, CAPSIS) and Poster Displays GROUP 1 Laboratory Training: Planning tools Economic planning Optimisation tools, artificial intelligence, and heuristic techniques GROUP 2 Laboratory Training: Stand and tree tools Assessment of volume and product output from LiDAR Assessment of timber quality Dinner (own plans) Daniel McInerney (Coillte) Juan Suarez (FR) Barry Gardiner (EFIATLANTIC) Celine Meredieu (INRA) Paddy Purser (Purser Tarleton Russell Ltd.) Celine Meredieu (INRA) John Casey (Teagasc), John Landy (Coillte) Ola Eriksson (SLU) Enda Keane (TreeMetrics) Elspeth Macdonald (UHI) 6
Friday 23 June Final Session Discussion, evaluation, and practical application of topics, tools and training presented during the course (group work) Report back from group work and general feedback from participants Facilitators Nick McCarthy (WIT) Maarten Nieuwenhuis (UCD) Christophe Orazio & Barry Gardiner (EFIATLANTIC) Depart 7