The National Plan for Aerial Orthophotography has incorporated LiDAR sensors that continuously capture data from the territory in order to have a very high resolution Digital Terrain Model. In addition to terrain data, information on forest stands and forest structure is captured.

The state of the art allows us to value this information with an appropriate processing so that we can obtain the height of the vegetation above the ground and its fraction of covered capacity. This project aims to go further, developing a methodology that allows estimating the number of existing feet in the pastures of the central west of the peninsula based on the information collected in the LiDAR data. This methodology will improve the knowledge of habitat 6310 of the Natura 2000 Network: Evergreen pastures of Quercus spp.

Based on the number of feet, and developing specific models for the pastures, the aim is to develop a tool that allows superficial quantification of stocks, biomass and CO2 in this type of habitat.
This tool aims to reduce inventory costs by 80%, making forest planning costs more affordable for forest owners.