With the motto "Forests are the green lungs of the Earth. Protecting forests not only maintains life for current creatures and habitats but also ensures life for future generations." Protecting forests manually and passively takes a lot of time and labor, leading to low protection effectiveness and high damage when incidents occur. Applying science and technology in forest protection and development solves all the limitations of existing manual methods.

When the Forestry Department issued Decision 34/QD-LN-CĐS 2023, promulgating the Forestry Department's digital transformation plan in 2023, a series of applications and software were created for the forestry industry to contribute to improving capacity of forest rangers in forest protection and development. Some of the following technology solutions are being applied effectively in many localities:

1. Wildfire Warning System

The automatic forest fire warning system includes a forest fire warning application on the server and an online and mobile forest fire prevention news page. This system automatically receives meteorological data of an area (temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind speed...) at 13:00, after analyzing and synthesizing the data to issue a warning message. forest fire forecast level. See more

2. Forest Fire Early Detection System

The system receives fire point information from satellite image receiving stations, processes fire point information, integrates the GIS database to extract fire points according to the following districts, communes, sub-zones, forest plots, and hamlets/villages. Then text the fire point results to the mobile subscribers of members of the Forest Fire Prevention and Fighting Steering Committee at all levels. From here, on-site forces will be notified, the fire point will be verified and handled. See more

3. Automatic forest fire forecast signboard

Automatic forest fire forecast signboard includes 5 fire forecast levels, operating by automatically receiving meteorological factors to calculate the forest fire forecast level and control the needle to rotate to the fire level position at signboard. Up to now, Automatic forest fire forecast signboard have been increasingly improved in terms of technology, materials as well as aesthetics. See more

4. Ground Monitoring Station for Forest Fire Monitoring

The Ground Monitoring Station for Forest Fire Monitoring uses AI Camera technology to operate continuously 24/7 with the feature of detecting smoke and fire points within a radius of 5 km, providing results of fire points to management levels. See more

5. The early detection system for lost forest

The system is based on changes in the area's NDVI and NRI vegetation indices on Sentinel satellite images to determine points where there is potential for forest loss or forest addition. From there, provide reports on information about these areas; along with their location on the regional status map. See more

6. Set of solutions for forest management using drones

Using unmanned aerial devices "Drones" is being widely applied by many units in many different fields. Use in forestry is a groundbreaking technological advance; especially in monitoring, managing and protecting forests. Application solutions in:

- Support in professional work: Illegal forest exploitation activities; Locate smoke and forest fires in the shortest time; Support in fire prevention and fighting; Monitor forest, wildlife or plant health; Carbon storage analysis; Density and distribution of trees, estimates of reserves and composition of forest stands, ...

- Monitoring and planning management;

- Help forest managers make faster and better decisions in each specific case. 
Currently, FIS is researching and developing this solution set and will put it into use in the near future.

It can be said that the digital transformation process in the forestry industry has created a "smart forest monitoring" model, helping forest monitoring and management take place more effectively, improving the forest fire prevention capacity of the force. number of rangers in the area; contributing to promoting efforts to protect forests, conserve biodiversity and balance the ecosystem. However, machinery or technology can only reduce up to 80% of labor, the rest depends on the management and planning ability of forestry staff.