26 June 2023, Monday (Hybrid)

–          Ferenc Lakatos, University of Sopron, Secretary of REUFIS

–          Norbert Winkler-Ráthonyi, FAO REU

Overview of Remote Sensing and GIS Applications for Forest Monitoring –

Géza Király, Kornél Czimber, University of Sopron, Faculty of Forestry, Sopron

Forest Health Monitoring Systems across the globe – Shiroma Sathyapala, FAO HQ

–          Ferenc Lakatos, University of Sopron, Secretary of REUFIS

–          Norbert Winkler-Ráthonyi, FAO REU

–          Shiroma Sathyapala, FAO HQ

Modelling Ips typographus development and predisposition to outbreaks in Austria – Sigrid Netherer, Institute of Forest Entomology, Forest Pathology and Forest Protection, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna, Austria (online)

Monitoring the status and expansion of bark beetle problems in the north-western corner of Europe – Bjørn Økland, Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) As, Norway

Country presentations – part 1

–          Digital solution in pest surveillance in Ukraine – Denys Baturkin, Ukraine

–          Digital solutions for monitoring bark beetle damages in Belarus – Mikhail Ilyuchyk, Belarus

–          The Bulgarian practices and needs – Petya Mateva, Executive Forest Agency, Directorate Forestry

–          From the sky to the canopy – Mara Tabakovic-Tosic, Institute of Forestry, Belgrade, Serbia

–          On the system of forest health monitoring in the Russian Federation – Anastasia Kozadaeva, engineer of Department of state forest pathology monitoring organization, Russian Centre of Forest Health, the Russian Federation

Discussion

Wrap up and closing of REUFIS meeting, Shiroma Sathyapala, FAO HQ

–          Current issues in the REUFIS member countries (interventions by focal points):

–          The state of development of the outbreak of mass reproduction of the bark beetle Ips typorgraphus in the spruce forests of the European part of Russia – Yuri Gninenko, senior researcher, Head of Laboratory for forest protection against invasive species, Russian Research Institute for Silviculture and Mechanization of Forestry, (VNIILM), the Russian Federation

–          Agrilus planipennis, Polygraphus proximus, and its associated Corinectria spp.: approaching threats to European ash and fir – Rimvys Vasaitis, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden

–          REUFIS workplan 2023-2025, Shiroma Sathyapala & Ferenc Lakatos

–          Discussion and conclusions

–          Modern molecular biology applications in forest diagnostics and protection – György Sipos, University of Sopron, Hungary

–          How to use data acquired? – Open discussion