Heads of School Forestry Units Were Told About Methods of GIS-Technologies Application in Ecomonitoring
Silver Taiga representatives took part in the workshop for the heads of the school forestry units held on September 22 under the republican school forestry units meeting at the premises of the republican centre of the ecological education under the support of the forestry specialists’ society of Komi. The Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Industry of Komi were the founders of the meeting.
The school forestry units usually meet once a year. The aim of the meeting is to involve the children and young people to the environmental and exploratory activities. This year the representatives of 12 school forestry units of Komi came to Syktyvkar. Each team consisted of 4 participants – three schoolchildren and one teacher.
Young foresters from five districts of Komi participated in such contest games as Forestry, Forest Protection, Forest Regeneration and Forest Searchers. As for the heads of the school forestry units they listened to the lecture on the use of the cartographical materials in the learning process. The Silver Taiga GIS-specialist Alexander Borovlev told about the geoinformation systems practiced by the Silver Taiga Foundation. The school teachers learned how to use the modern monitoring methods during planning of loggings and how it is possible to control the forest ecosystems changes with the help of the remote sensing data.
«The modern GIS directions have a simple interface. There are the programs available even for theschoolchildren. The very simple set of functions allows using such programs during the forest ecosystems monitoring without any special education. It would be nice to practice the use of the geoinformation technologies during the environmental lessons at school. No doubt, not all the schoolchildren will be the foresters in future, but they should know how to conduct the forest ecosystems monitoring with the help of simple, available-for-all tools», says Alexander Borovlev.
Aleksandr Borovlev
