Harnessing Spatial Informatics to Address the Challenges in Resource Supply of"Bamboo as a Substitute for Plastic"
Plastic pollution is one of the most concerned environmental issues in the world,seriously affecting human health and development."Bamboo as a substitute for plastic",as an important solution to plastic pollution,is proposed by China in view of its advantages in bamboo resources.However,the largest bottleneck restricting the high-quality development of bamboo industry is the insufficient bamboo resource supply to meet the growing market demand for bamboo products.Bamboo resource supply is challenged mainly by the low precision of bamboo resources monitoring,the uneven quality,and the high cost of harvesting.Therefore it is urgent to improve the capacity of bamboo resources supply in a comprehensive way.Bamboo spatial informatics,which integrates multiple disciplines including remote sensing science,geographical information science,statistics and operational research,has a great potential to be applied for addressing these challenges.In view of the problems existing in bamboo resource supply,this paper elaborates on the applications of bamboo informatics in precise bamboo resource monitoring,quality improvement and felling/transport cost reduction,in the hope to give play to the innovation and leading role of spatial informatics in addressing the challenges and better serve the high-quality development of"bamboo as a substitute for plastic".
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