EGU21-10857
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-10857
EGU General Assembly 2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Assessment of wind damage risk in forest areas: application with GIS and Fuzzy-AHP MATLAB graphical user interface tool

Meryem Tahri1, Jan Kašpar1, Miroslav Novotny1,2, Haytham Tahri3, and Mohamed Maanan4
Meryem Tahri et al.
  • 1Czech University of Life Sciences , Faculty of forestry and wood sciences , Forest management, Praha 6, Czechia (tahri@fld.czu.cz); (kasparj@fld.czu.cz)
  • 2Vojenské lesy a statky, s.p., Praha, Czechia (miroslav.novotny@vls.cz)
  • 3Freelance software engineer, Paris, France (haytham.tahri@gmail.com)
  • 4Université de Nantes, Laboratory of Littoral, Environment, Remote Sensing and Geomatic UMR 6554, Geolittomer, Nantes, France (Mohamed.Maanan@univ-nantes.fr)

In the current situation, the forest degradation areas caused by severe wind-breaking has steadily risen. This research proposes an efficient decision support tool to reduce wind damage risk and monitor forest zones. This study provides an outcome of the role of the combination of geographical information system (GIS) and Fuzzy-AHP MATLAB graphical user interface (GUI) for forest managers and environmental consultants. The user-friendly application shows how the research work ensures forest spatial planning and monitoring on ecological and forest management purposes on a regional and national worldwide scale. A representative Czech case study was chosen regarding different parameter characteristics to test our approach. The study also used map surfaces from field survey sampling results and compared the ground truth values at specific locations with data from the new model. The GIS and Fuzzy-AHP GUI are helpful for various consultants in optimizing the decision-support process in many fields.

How to cite: Tahri, M., Kašpar, J., Novotny, M., Tahri, H., and Maanan, M.: Assessment of wind damage risk in forest areas: application with GIS and Fuzzy-AHP MATLAB graphical user interface tool, EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, EGU21-10857, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu21-10857, 2021.

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