| Project Name | Arranging infrastructure and research support for a research-based educational programs Global Change Forestry and Applied Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing in Forestry |
| Shorted Project Name | Facilities for GChF and RSF |
| Beneficiary | Czech university of Life Sciences Prague – Faculty of Forest and Wood Sciences |
| Investigator | doc. Ing. Tomáš Kušta, Ph.D. |
| Total Resources | |
| 71,35 % EU Contribution | 7,576,892.54 CZK |
| 23,65 % Public Resources | 1,906,701.54 CZK |
| 5 % Own Financing | 499,136.54 CZK |
| Project Implementation Date | 1. 11. 2017 - 31. 10. 2020 |
| Grantor | Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport |
| Operational Programme Title | Operational Programme Research, Development and Education |
| ID and Title of The Priority Axis | PA 1 – Strengthening capacity for high-quality research |
| ID and Title of The Call | Call No 02_16_017 for Research Infrastructures for Educational Purposes - Building or Upgrading in Priority Axis 1 OP |
The aim of the project is to develop a quality infrastructure of new research-oriented study programs Global Change Forestry and Applied Geoinformatics and Remote Sensing (RSF) in Forestry at the FFWS following up the CZU strategy. The project is time-based and factually linked to the project Creation of new research programs [MMT1] at the FFWS and is focused on the provision of instrumentation equipment to ensure quality research in relation to the labor market demands.
Purchasing Devices for the RSF program and their integration into teaching / research will enable students to gain knowledge about the possibilities of using GIS and RSF in forestry with an emphasis on solving tasks on different spatial scales from the level of a forest enterprise, a strategic assessment of the state and development of forest resources at national level, to regional or global applications aimed at identifying deforestations, impacts of climate change on forests. Students will also acquire specific knowledge of forest modeling using different models of trees, vegetation and landscape, as well as possibilities of interconnecting these models with GIS tools and remote sensing.
Providing the GChF infrastructure will enable students to get acquainted with the basic models of climate, carbon sequestration at different hierarchical levels. They recognize interactions between elevated CO2 concentration, temperature, water, spectral composition of solar radiation or change in mineral nutrition and their mutual influence on the metabolism, physiology and tree production processes. They will acquire the basics of the human dimensions of the impacts of global change and the current possibilities of adaptive and innovative techniques.