The current forest planning tools identify forest sector objectives and strategies in a generalized way but do not provide operational tools to support the forest owner in management of their proprieties.

The Strategic Plan proposed by the SURF O.G. - DECISION SUPPORT TO SUSTAINABLE FOREST PLANNING - has developed a Decision Support System (SSD) in pilot areas based on spatial modeling to support sustainable forest management on a corporate scale and which provides information on forest stands on a regional scale. The system is accessible via the www.go-surf.app platform and was created thanks to the possibility of integrating complex spatial modeling procedures that integrate data collected on the ground and coming from sensors on aerial, drone and satellite platforms, making them accessible through a simple intuitive online interface.

The System aims to provide essential data measurements for sustainable forest management derived from already available information, such as, for example, those acquired within the national forest inventory, thus helping to reduce the costs of ordinary forest management in all forest holdings, especially private ones. Furthermore, the project in the pilot areas aims to demonstrate that through precision data, such as a forest typology map, an accessibility maps and a wood product map, it is possible to integrate different information into a single system that supports sustainable forest management. This made the SURF Strategic Plan important for demonstrating to forest owners, territorial planning managers and all operators in the forest-wood chain the possibility of initiating forms of sustainable forest management more suited to the complex problem of maximizing the production of services.