Abstract
Forests and grasslands play an important role in water and air purification, prevention of the soil erosion, and in provision of habitat to wildlife. Internet of Things has a tremendous potential to play a vital role in the forest ecosystem management and stability. The conservation of species and habitats, timber production, prevention of forest soil degradation, forest fire prediction, mitigation, and control can be attained through forest management using Internet of Things. The use and adoption of IoT in forest ecosystem management is challenging due to many factors. Vast geographical areas and limited resources in terms of budget and equipment are some of the limiting factors. In digital forestry, IoT deployment offers effective operations, control, and forecasts for soil erosion, fires, and undesirable depositions. In this chapter, IoT sensing and communication applications are presented for digital forestry systems. Different IoT systems for digital forest monitoring applications are also discussed.
Keywords
forest management, climate change, species richness, disturbances
Date of this Version
1-1-2020
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Agricultural Science Commons, Agronomy and Crop Sciences Commons, Environmental Monitoring Commons, Forest Biology Commons, Forest Management Commons, Horticulture Commons, Hydrology Commons, Other Forestry and Forest Sciences Commons, Soil Science Commons, Sustainability Commons, Wood Science and Pulp, Paper Technology Commons
Comments
The accepted (peer-reviewed) version for self-archiving. A version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35291-2_5
Cite this chapter as: Salam A. (2020) Internet of Things for Sustainable Forestry. In: Internet of Things for Sustainable Community Development. Internet of Things (Technology, Communications and Computing). Springer, Cham