STOPPING BEETLE DEVASTATION IN THE FORESTS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC:
STOPPING BEETLE DEVASTATION IN THE FORESTS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC:
4 PagesSTOPPING BEETLE DEVASTATION IN THE FORESTS OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC: How FMI leveraged Planet imagery to locate 16,000 hectares of timber damage and inform forest policy changeUsing PlanetScope as their primary dataset, FMI undertook a comprehensive geospatial analysis and created a national, public portal for forest stakeholders to assess and respond to the current bark beetle epidemic. THE SPREAD OF BARK BEETLE Forests across Europe and North America have recently been ravaged by unprecedented bark beetle outbreaks, with hundreds of thousands of hect- ares devastated. From the mountain pine beetle in the northwest US to the spruce beetle across central Europe, these insects are widespread and nu- merous in species and have generally played an important part in forest ecol- ogy.
