PROSPECTS FOR THE USE OF UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES IN FORESTRY FOR FOREST PROTECTION MEASURES

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Zviagintsev Vyacheslav Borisovich – PhD (Biology), Associate professor, Assistant professor, the Department of Forest Protection and Wood Science. Belarusian State Technological University (13a, Sverdlova str., 220006, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: zviagintsev@belstu.by

Malashevich Diana Georgievna – Senior Lecturer, the Department of Management, Business Technology and Sustainable Development. Belarusian State Technological University (13a, Sverdlova str., 220006, Minsk, Republic of Belarus). E-mail: malashevich@belstu.by

Zhdanovich Sergey Anatolyevich – Director of the State Institution for Forest Protection and Monitoring “Bellesozashchita” (26a, Parkovaya str., 223031, Zhdanovichi a/g, Minsk district, Republic of Belarus). E-mail:bellesozaschita@mail.belpak.by

 

DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.52065/2520-6877-2023-274-2-6 (In Russian).

 

Key words: unmanned aerial vehicles, innovation, forest protection measures, economic efficiency, environmentally friendly technologies.

 

For citation: Zviagintsev V. B., Malashevich D. G., Zhdanovich S. A. Prospects for the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in forestry for forest protection measures. Proceedings of BSTU, issue 5, Economics and Management, 2023, no. 2 (274), pp. 43–49. DOI: 10.52065/2520-6877-2023-274-2-6 (In Russian).

 

Abstract

The intensification of economic activity contributes to global climate change and transforms natural environmental conditions, which has a particularly acute impact on natural geobiocenosis. In relation to forest ecosystems, this manifests itself in a violation of the stability of plantations, the occurrence of outbreaks of pests and forest diseases, which increases the need to improve forest protection technologies and introduce advanced achievements into them. The use of traditional ground and aviation equipment for carrying out such treatments has a number of disadvantages, which have led to the rapid development of technologies for applying plant protection products using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The article shows the prospects for introducing cost-effective and environmentally friendly technologies for applying plant protection products using unmanned aerial vehicles in forest plantations and seed plantations. To economically justify the use of UAVs in plant protection, the method of comparative economic efficiency in relation to existing technologies was used. It was concluded that the use of UAVs in the process of plant protection in forestry entails increased productivity and improved working conditions, contributes to the greening of technological processes and reduces the costs of their implementation.

 

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