International Conference of COFE-FETEC 2023: “Forest Operations: A Tool for Forest Management”

Northern Arizona University, 2023.

Podolskaia E., Akay A. E.

Paper covers the use and features of roads seasonality parameter in the presently publicly available Open datasets. Roads seasonality was considered as a factor of transport accessibility for the forest transport modeling at the regional level of large Siberian federal district, Russia. As analysis of papers shows, roads seasonality is mainly related to the winter conditions and low temperatures, researchers are focused on the winter roads. North big countries like Russia and Canada are the most interested data users in the domain of GIS transport projects. We state a lack of seasonality data, declared in the world databases, but not actually included. Forestry and forest industry need a combination of infrastructural data, and roads seasonality has a role of parameter to be included in the transport accessibility scenarios to reach forest fires and forest resources by ground means. Data on the roads seasonality for the regions of Russian could be found in the form of map view and text description. We have analyzed roads seasonality attributes of four Open datasets available online (Open Street Map, gRoads1, Natural Earth of 1:10 000 000, and Global roads inventory project or GRIP); for Siberian federal district only two of them have an indicator of seasonality (OSM and GRIP). Seasonal use of roads in the forest management depends on the features like relief and rivers, swamps and soils, they would be investigated in the future research. Roads conditions depending on season could be included in the transport scenarios for the regions. Artificial Intelligence and remote sensing materials in combination could lead to the continuation of such research.

Keywords: seasonality, forestry, GIS, applications based on open data, roads