Departmental Description – what we do

Geoengineering and land-use planning documentation
  • Surveying activities in relation to planning documentation
  • Use of highly accurate digital terrain models for analysis and planning
  • GIS applications for land suitability mapping Spatial decision support
Classical and non-contact methods of forest survey
  • Dendrometry surveys
  • Method optimisation in relation to forest shape and character
  • Scalable monitoring
  • Use of airborne laser scanning and unmanned aerial photography
  • Application of remote sensing methods

Differentiated (variant) adaptive forest management
  • Use of participatory decision-making systems
  • Multi-agent modelling and simulation
  • General and specific sustainable management strategies
  • Coordination and management of processes at different spatiotemporal scales
  • Scale-dependent modelling
  • Mapping support for variant planning methodologies
Biometric data processing, natural and forest production value
  • Modelling of forest growth and development for forecasting
  • Use of growth simulators for evaluation and assessment of management strategies
  • Application of ecophysiological principles for production, stability and security
  • Calculation of production value

Background – where we work

  • Building B on the University campus – The Department’s offices and classrooms are located on the 3rd floor and in the left wing of the ground floor.

Collaboration – we are not alone

Companies and institutions
  • Agentura ochrany přírody a krajiny ČR
  • Lesy města Brna, a.s.
  • LESPROJEKT BRNO, a.s.
  • Lesy ČR, s.p.
  • Městské lesy Volary, s.r.o.
  • Papierholz Austria, GmbH
  • Národní lesnický institut
  • Kraj Vysočina
  • Výzkumný ústav Silva Taroucy pro krajinu a okrasné zahradnictví, v.v.i.
  • CHKO Moravský kras
  • Krkonošský národní park
  • Biosférická rezervace Dolní Morava
  • Ústav geoniky AV ČR
  • TopGIS s.r.o.
  • Lesnický park Křivoklátsko
  • PRIMIS spol. s r. o.
List of international partners
  • MONDI, Europe & International Division Vienna (Rakousko)
  • Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Ås Norsko)
  • Clark Labs, Clark University (Worcester MA, USA)
  • Rovaniemi University of Applied Sciences (Finsko)
  • University of Agriculture in Krakow (Polsko)
  • University in Salzburg (Rakousko)
  • Technická univerzita vo Zvolene (Slovensko)
  • Národné lesnícke centrum (Slovensko)
  • Environmental Systems Research Institute (Redlands CA, USA)
  • Joint Research Centre (Ispra, Italy)
  • GMV Aerospace & Defence SAU (Madrid, Španělsko)
  • Fora Forest Technologies S.L.L. (Španělsko)
  • CREAF – Ecological and Forestry Applications Research Centre (Španělsko)

Departmental staff – who we are

ÚHÚLAG FFWT, Zemědělská 3, 61300 Brno (Černá Pole)
Office: B1.70
Ústav hospodářské úpravy lesů a aplikované geoinformatiky
Lesnická a dřevařská fakulta MENDELU
Zemědělská 3, 613 00 Brno
List of employees

Department of Forest Management and Applied Geoinformatics

Staff