Federal Forestry Agency Rosleskhoz
Russia
Central Federal District of the Russian Federation
Moscow
115184, st. Pyatnitskaya, 59/19
Owners:
Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation
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Rosleskhoz State Forest Register
Main article: Rosleskhoz State Forest Register
2024: "Smart Forest" and UAV: How the digital transformation of Rosleskhoz goes
In the fall of 2024, Rosleskhoz announced a large-scale digital transformation aimed at transferring the country's forestry management to digital format from 2025. As representatives of the department noted, the introduction of digital technologies and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has already begun to bring the first results, especially in the field of monitoring and forest protection.
According to the press service of Rosleskhoz, one of the key technologies being introduced in forestry was the Smart Forest system. This digital platform is designed to track changes in forest areas, including identifying illegal logging and identifying wildfire threats. The system provides real-time monitoring, which significantly reduces the response time to incidents and increases the efficiency of supervision in forestry.
Another significant element of Rosleshoz's digital transformation was the use of unmanned aerial vehicles. UAVs are actively used to monitor the state of forests, promptly detect fires and track felling. Unmanned surveillance systems allow real-time transmission of forest status information and increased responsiveness to emergencies. According to Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Sergei Anoprienko, the use of UAVs has allowed Rosleskhoz to significantly increase the efficiency of work in forests, especially in hard-to-reach areas where traditional monitoring methods are difficult.
The forest monitoring system using UAVs is integrated with ERA-GLONASS technology, allowing you to track the location of forest equipment, which is used both for transporting wood and extinguishing forest fires. From January 1, 2025, all vehicles engaged in forestry, including forest fire fighting equipment, must be equipped with this equipment.[1]
2021: Rosleskhoz conducts digital transformation for 6.7 billion rubles
In early December 2021, it became known about the digital transformation program of the Federal Forestry Agency (Rosleskhoz). Its costs will amount to 6.7 billion rubles over three years.
As Kommersant writes with reference to the corresponding document, one of the directions of the digital transformation program will be the connection of artificial intelligence (AI) to the Rosleshoz automated system for 120 million rubles. This amount will include costs of 55 million rubles for the use of neural networks for predicting fires, as well as 65 million rubles included in the project for remote sensing of potential fire zones. The technology will analyze satellite images for fire recognition and historical data by region, taking into account weather conditions.
According to Dmitry Parshin, director of the Artezio development center, the introduction of AI allows you to automate the routine processes in which people are involved. The technology will analyze satellite images for fire recognition and historical data by region, taking into account weather conditions. Most likely, AI's work in the field of fire prediction will be built on tracking certain markers. If they are present, the system will invite a person to make a decision, he said.
The reason for strengthening supervision of the state of forests using new technologies was the catastrophic situation in the summer of 2021, when a record area of forest land burned down in the country, and smog from their burning reached the North Pole, which caused indignation of the world community and accusations against Russia of a barbaric attitude towards the conservation of the planet. Foreign environmentalists drew attention to the need to introduce methods of protection against the influence of the carbon footprint that provokes global warming.[2]
2020: Appointment of Ivan Sovetnikov Chief Digital Transformation Officer
On May 20, 2020, TAdviser became aware that Ivan Sovetov was appointed Deputy Head of the Federal Forestry Agency for Digital Transformation (Chief Digital Transformation Officer, CDTO). Read more here.
History
Since 2006, forestry has been living according to the current Forest Code. Formally, it is subordinate to the Ministry of Agriculture, controlling functions are performed by another service under the Ministry of ― Rosselkhoznadzor. At the same time, according to the code, forestry and fire protection functions should be performed by land tenants, and not by the state.
2022: TAdviser interview with Deputy Head Vyacheslav Spirenkov
How, according to the Russian proverb "see the forest behind the trees"? Make all processes of interaction between forest departments and forest users transparent. Vyacheslav Spirenkov, deputy head of Rosleskhoz, told TAdviser about how the digital transformation of the forest industry is being carried out today in December 2022. Read more here.
2010
On August 27, Dmitry Medvedev announced that he had signed (changes to the Forest Code were made on July 22, 2010) a decree transferring Rosleskhoz to direct subordination to the government. Over the past two years, this is the second federal agency over which the Ministry of Agriculture has lost power. In 2008, the Federal Agency for Fishery came out of its subordination and in the same year adopted a record three dozen regulatory acts. It is hoped that the forest department, freed from the Ministry of Health and Welfare, will improve the Forest Code in order to pre-empt the recurrence of the 2010 emergency.
The new body, according to Medvedev, "will be transferred the functions of developing state policy and regulatory framework in the field of forest relations and control and supervision in the field of forest relations, with the exception of forests that are located in specially protected natural areas." The President ordered special attention to the mechanism for managing the forest fund and the number of employees.
Information Technology in the Forest Industry
Main article: Information technologies in the forest industry
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