Saudi Gazette report
RIYADH — The Minister of Atmosphere, Water and Agriculture Eng. Abdulrahman Al-Fadhli, who can be the Chairman of the Board of Administrators of the Nationwide Heart for Vegetation Growth and Combating Desertification (NCVC), has launched a program to watch, consider and examine the vegetation cowl areas utilizing distant sensing strategies and synthetic intelligence.
This system may also contribute in reaching the objectives of the afforestation initiatives and the Saudi Inexperienced Initiative.
The CEO of NCVC Khaled Bin Abdullah Al-Abdulqadir said that these strategies are concentrating on to watch the change within the vegetation cowl on the websites of afforestation initiatives, monitor the land cowl and the change in its space, calculate the quantities of rain and the density of vegetation cowl, in addition to monitoring and controlling the plant well being, and lots of others.
He said that the AI and the distant sensing strategies contribute in monitoring and following up the mangrove forests extending alongside the coasts of Saudi Arabia.
That is along with following up on afforestation and irrigation works utilizing drones, calculating the variety of bushes and subject achievement percentages, and following up on sand encroachment and its impression on vegetation cowl.
The strategies additionally allow the examine of land cowl classifications and their suitability for plant species, in addition to charges of drought and its impression on vegetation cowl, charges of desertification, along with analyzing the topographical traits, monitoring and evaluating of forest fires, and extra.
Al-Abdulqadir stated that Saudi Arabia’s space is estimated at 2 million sq. kilometers, and it’s characterised by a number of terrains and a various vegetation cowl that features a number of issues, of which: forests, pastures, nationwide and wild parks, coasts and islands.
It’s noteworthy that the NCVC works to develop, defend and management vegetation websites in Saudi Arabia, rehabilitate degraded ones, and detect encroachments on them.
Among the many duties of the middle can be to oversee pasture lands, defend forests and nationwide parks, in addition to spend money on them, in a manner that promotes sustainable improvement that improves the standard of life in accordance with the objectives of Saudi Arabia’s Imaginative and prescient 2030.