SIBOSC

Work is under way to develop tools (to make information easily accessible to public administration, to all those involved in or associated with the forestry sector and to members of the public in general) such as the MiraBosc application, the on-line version of which permits real time search of the IEFC, IFN2 and IFN3 databases via the Internet. Searches are carried out by easy-to-use menus which permit an immediate response.

 

Moreover, new information, either at the request of the public administration or on the project’s own initiative, is being generated. The SIBosC system has been used in the annexes to the manual for drawing up Technical Plans for Forest Management and Improvement (PTGMF) produced by the Centro de la Propiedad Forestal (Forest Estates Centre), and in the preparation of the new General Forest Policy Plan. The system has made it possible to calculate forest carbon stocks on the basis of overground tree biomass and expansion factors, and has supplied information for the 2005 Report on the environment and sustainable development. Recently, the SIBosC team has prepared texts on ecological Indicators within the framework of the IFN3, published by the Ministry of the Environment as part of the series of publications of the Third National Forest Inventory.