Modeflora is a process of forest planning that employs different digital technologies to map the forest and generate information to facilitate planning, establishment and monitoring of forest management activities, providing lower costs for growers and less impact on the environment.

Forest management in tropical forests in Brazil still uses analogical methods to locate trees and map hydrography and topography, also known as X-Y coordinate mapping. As a consequence of this practice, the planning and execution of forest exploration projects are of low precision and efficiency, which makes several errors common, such as opening roads to access areas with low timber potential, oversized patios to store wood, imprecision in up to 35 meters in tree locations, permanent preservation areas mapped with low precision, construction of excessive number of bridges, and inefficient monitoring of field operations.

The technology integrates the Global Positioning System (GPS), Geographic Information System (SIG) and Remote Sensing (RS) to plan, carry out and monitor management activities with high precision.

Who benefits from it

Companies in the forest sector.

Geographic range

Amazonas, Rondônia, Acre

Economic benefits

From 2008 to 2015 Modeflora was adopted in over 272,000 hectares of forest management, saving R$ 53.7 million.

Percentage reduction in the costs of activities: a) forest inventory and microzoning (50%), c) in-office planning (66.67%), d) road opening (20%), e) trail planning (43.34%) and skidding (44.63%). Such activities represent a reduction in the total costs of approximately 42.73% when compared with timber explored with conventional forest management.

Partners

Acre Technological Foundation - Funtac, Embrapa Forestry

This technological solution was developed by Embrapa in partnership with other institutions.