Project to prevent fires, TVI Jornal
TVI was at the second rePLANT demonstration and produced a report that highlights the camera network sensitive to temperature, connected in real time to the authorities, and also a robot that helps in forest maintenance operations. Watch the video (PT)
Wildfires. Project will help fight fires in Parque das Serras do Porto, Notícias ao Minuto
rePLANT, an unprecedented technological project that brings together companies, universities and research centers for the enhancement and defense of forests, presented yesterday at the Parque das Serras do Porto, innovative technologies for the defense and management of forests and fire, revealed in a statement. According to the same source, among them is the monitoring of […]
Optical cameras cover 85% of the Parque Serras do Porto in the wildfires fighting, Porto Canal
More than five thousand, of the six thousand hectares of the Parque das Serras do Porto, are from this Monday covered by four optical cameras with a range of 10 kilometers and able to detect fire in the dark. The description of the new equipment that will be presented this Monday in Paredes was made […]
rePLANT presents technological solutions for forest and fire management, Ambiente Magazine
rePLANT is structured in three main areas: forest and fire management, risk management and circular economy and value chains. The rePLANT project, which brings together companies, universities and research centers to value and defend the forest, presented, this Monday, at Parque das Serras do Porto, innovative technologies for defense and management of forest and fire. […]
5 Million Investment to improve firefighting, Antena 1
Optical cameras, digital sensors and a robot are some of the innovations of the rePLANT project. All these mechanisms will help in the defense of forests in the municipalities of Gondomar, Paredes and Valongo. Antena 1 Listen (PT)
#Wildfiree: Not all occurrences outside the “normal” season should be seen as a problem, Ambiente Magazine
This summer Portugal is once again approaching a time of high risk, essentially for forests and rural areas. Fires are a worrying recurrence and Ambiente Magazine went to listen to some experts. Ana Sá, senior researcher of the Risk Management Working Line of CoLAB ForestWISE, says that the country is getting ready “at the speed […]
Innovative technologies for the valorization of Forest and Fire: rePLANT’s 2nd Demonstration Action
15 May 2023 – Serras do Porto Park After 3 years of intense multidisciplinary collaboration and joint effort between 20 entities, rePLANT – the first major initiative and operationalization project from CoLAB ForestWISE – presents in this second demonstration action a set of innovative technologies for an integrated management of forest and fire. In this […]
Expert says “fire is not always bad” if it allows the creation of “buffer zones”, Diário de Notícias
Ana Sá, researcher at CoLAB ForestWISE , explains that “small grazing fires” end up acting in a “very positive way” by acting as a “buffer zone”, preventing fire from reaching greater intensity and spreading to surrounding areas in the summer. “Fire is not always bad, it is not a bad protagonist always. These fires which […]
rePLANT use new technologies for forest knowledge, PME Magazine
rePLANT brings together 20 entities, including companies from the forest sector and non-corporate entities of I&I, and aims to contribute to a greater valorization of the Portuguese forest. The first major project from ForestWISE and PME Magazine wanted to meet it through the eyes of Carlos Fonseca, this CoLAB´s CTO. PME Magazine (PME Mag. )- […]