In his remarks, Ruslan Edelgeriyev stressed the importance of forests in achieving the national targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and underscored the need to expand the use of Earth remote sensing (ERS) technologies for forest monitoring and providing information support to the forestry sector.
Leading experts in the field delivered reports on the organisation of forest inventory work, the application of ERS for this purpose, and technological advances in Russian science. The debates made it possible to reach a consensus on the key principles that should underpin Russia’s forest accounting system.