Juris Zarins

Juris Zarins
Latvian State Forest Research Institute "Silava" · Forest resources and national forest inventory

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Education
September 2008 - June 2010
University of Latvia
Field of study
  • Biology
September 1996 - June 2003

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Publications (11)
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Building on the positive experiences with open forest map data in Scandinavia, it is evident that extending a similar solution globally has the potential to revolutionize forest management and business on a worldwide scale. While forest management in the Nordic countries can certainly be enhanced, the most rapid solution for climate change mitigati...
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A microstand is a small forest area with a homogeneous tree species, height, and density composition. High-spatial-resolution GeoEye-1 multispectral (MS) images and GeoEye-1-based canopy height models (CHMs) allow delineating microstands automatically. This paper studied the potential benefits of two microstand segmentation workflows: (1) our modif...
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Fire as disturbance of forests has an important ecological and economical role in boreal and hemiboreal forests. The occurrence of forest fires is both climatically and anthropogenically determined and shifts in fire regimes are expected due to climate change. Although fire histories have been well documented in boreal regions, there is still insuf...
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The research aim is to assess indicators of use of forest land (FL) in the administrative units of Latvia to identify opportunities for the intensification of exploitation of FL. In Latvia, forest land occupies 3.3 million hectares (ha) or 52% of the total area, which determines the need for the efficient use of it. To precisely identify the relati...
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The study focused on analyzing biologically potentially valuable forest regional distribution and dynamic between 2005 and 2012 in Latvia. The main data source was State Forest Register. The set of criteria comprising age and compositional parameters were elaborated to select appropriate stands of numerous forest families. The results revealed vari...
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Woodland key habitat (WKH) inventories have been conducted in northern European countries, with the aim to create networks of minimally disturbed forest stands for protection. The goal of national forest inventory is to provide information relevant to forest management, such as on forest types, trees species composition, age structure and wood volu...

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