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The Baltic Journal of Road and Bridge Engineering, 2014 Traditional methods of designing forest roads using topographic maps and aerial photos are not always capable of leading to an optimal road alignment solution that minimizes the environmental effects of road construction.
Abdullah Emin Akay +2 more
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Machine Learning Modeling of Forest Road Construction Costs
Forests, 2021 The economics of the forestry enterprise are largely measured by their performance in road construction and management. The construction of forest roads requires tremendous capital outlays and usually constitutes a major component of the construction ...
A. Jaafari, Iman Pazhouhan, P. Bettinger
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Journal of Forest Science, 2018 The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of the development of road quality (surfacing condition and road type) and road quantity (road density and distance to main road) on forest extent changes in a region in Zagros forests of Iran ...
Ayoob REZAEE MOTLAQ +3 more
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Forest road network planning based on environmental, technical and economical considerations using GIS and AHP (Case study: Baharbon district in Kheyroud forest) [PDF]
تحقیقات جنگل و صنوبر ایران, 2011 The goal of this study is presenting a proper method to improve the planning of forest roads network based on environmental, technical and economical considerations using GIS (Geographical Information System) and AHP (Analytical Hierarchy Process).
Nayyereh Shahsavand Baghdadi +2 more
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Jurnal Penelitian Hasil Hutan (Journal of Forest Products Research), 2017 Forest road network has a very important role in tranaporling logs fram the frest to processing site or logyard. The investigation of forest road density by using theaerial photo of l : 20.000 and 1: 60.000 scales had been conducted.The scope of the ...
Ishak Sumantri
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iForest - Biogeosciences and Forestry, 2012 An efficient and low-cost transportation network is necessary for sustainable management. Roading and log skidding are the most expensive and destructive operations in forest environment, unless carefully planned and evaluated.
Hayati E, Majnounian B, Abdi E
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Rerouting a major Indonesian mining road to spare nature and reduce development costs
Conservation Science and Practice, 2021 Road‐infrastructure projects are expanding rapidly worldwide while penetrating into previously undisturbed forests. In Sumatra, Indonesia, a planned 88‐km‐long mining road for transporting coal would imperil the Harapan Forest, the island's largest ...
Jayden E. Engert +2 more
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Road geometric design and its effect on some chemical and biochemical indicators of soil of adjacent forest stands [PDF]
مجله جنگل ایران, 2017 Forest roads are the most important infrastructure to access and apply the forest management activities, which they can impose a significant impact on adjacent stands. The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of the forest road geometric
Saeed Rahbari Sisakht +4 more
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Applied Sciences, 2022 Forest roads are of great economic importance as they ensure the transport of logs and forest biomass toward collection and processing centers, which is why they should be evaluated periodically, in order to establish the degree of degradation and ...
Ioan Bitir +4 more
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Ecological criterion effect on the forest road network longitudinal gradient
Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2013 The specific way in which a forest road is designed affects the management in the forest environment and timber transport. The aim of this study was to find out whether an inclusion of the ecological criterion in the forest road design will change the ...
Petr Hrůza
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