FOREST RESTORATION METHOD Russian patent published in 2020 - IPC A01G23/00 

FIELD: forestry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to forestry during artificial forest restoration and promotion of natural reforestation, in particular, to methods ensuring restoration of forest on areas hard to recover or inaccessible for ground-based means of mechanization and human. When implementing method of forest restoration, including groups of area preparation operations, preparation of forest reproductive material, seeding of seeds or planting of seedlings on area, additionally includes group of operations of monitoring. Alternative rapid analysis and encapsulation operations carried out in field conditions using mobile equipment are additionally introduced into a group of operations for preparing forest reproductive material. In the group of operations of seeds sowing or planting of seedlings on the area the additional operation of spot sowing of seeds or planting of seedlings from air is carried out, which is carried out using unmanned aerial vehicles of helicopter, aircraft or hybrid types, equipped with taking into account their take-off mass navigation equipment based on closely-integrated inertial-satellite system, equipment for simultaneous storage of sown seeds or planted seedlings, control of specified seeding rate of seeds or planting seedlings by quantitative or mass basis and accurate seeding or planting of seedlings depending on specified scheme of location of forest crops and speed of unmanned aerial vehicle, energy accumulating equipment.

EFFECT: advantages of the proposed method of forest recovery on hard-to-recover areas are the acceleration of the reforestation process and the higher environmental safety by reducing the number of operations which disturb the forest ecosystem, use of environmentally safe energy sources in technical means of monitoring, preparation of reproductive material, sowing or planting, reduction of costs for performance of energy-intensive operations of area preparation, transportation of reproductive material to the place of preliminary preparation and back.

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