Research Center for Forest Ecology and Environment (RCFEE)

Forest Science Institute of Vietnam

Dong Ngac, Tu Liem, Hanoi
Tel/fax: 8389434, email: info@rcfee.org.vn

RCFEE GIS program

Research Center for Forest Ecology and Environment (RCFEE) has invested on GIS&RS
application since 1992. RCFEE’s GIS research is focused on practical mapping solution
for forest monitoring and management. We are also interested in GIS modeling research
in order to solve complex problem on forest environment and forestry hydrology.
At RCFEE, our GIS’s team has use and develops GIS solution to solve our own problem
in forestry research and help many clients to improve their management process in
forestry industry.

GIS and Remote sensing Lab

Our GIS lab located at headquarter of RCFEE at Dong Ngac, Tu Liem, Hanoi. Our GIS
facilitates include:
- PC Workstations specialized for GIS and image processing
- GIS, mapping software: MapInfo, ArcGIS, ILWIS.
- Remote sensing software: ENVI, ERDAS Imagine.
- A0 printer, A0 scanner, map publishing software and hardware.
- Up-to-date database of digital map covering most part of Vietnam.

GIS training
RCFEE has delivered GIS training course for local agencies since 1995. Our customer
including Provincial Agriculture and Rural development Department (PARD), large-scale
afforestration project funded by FAO, World Bank, GTZ. Our course is designed based
on our own experience while teaching basic GIS for RCFEE's staff. The program aiming
at providing beginner user with particle, ready-to-use GIS technique to solve common
problem in forestry survey, mapping and management.

GIS’s Course introduction (MAP I)

• MAP I equips basic knowledge about GIS to apply MapInfo software for mapping
and spatial data management.
• MAP I content: Basic GIS concept; Query GIS database; management, edit spatial
and attribute data; View data and information map or graph; Show data and
information by map and graph.

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• Trainee will study MapInfo, GPS utilities, and learn how to combine field survey with
software to make a completed GIS solution.

GIS Project completed

Project: Development of Forest land evaluation (FOLES) software solution 2006

Project contracted with MARD
Summary
· Develop a software package for automated forest land evaluation which is
suitable for Vietnam condition
· Development platform: ArcGIS
Project: Land capability mapping for World Bank afforestation project at 5 2003
middle province
Project contracted with Orgut consulting and World Bank.
Summary
· Establish GIS database for all provinces including soil map, slope, land
cover, social-economic factors.
· Land capability mapping for all project area at 5 provinces using multi-
criteria analysis method
· Produce map for all project area, break down to commune level (total 200
maps)
Project: Criteria and Indicator for Forest land evaluation in Vietnam 2002
Research project assigned by FAO Vietnam
Summary
· Formulate set of criteria and indicators for forest land evaluation.
· Develop method for computer-assisted Forest Land Evaluation.
· Carried out 2 GIS testing project at Bac Giang and Gia lai province.
Project: Mapping and land use planning for Afforestation project at Quang 2001-
Ninh, Lang Son province. 2003
Project contracted with KFW.
Summary
· Site mapping and land use planning mapping
· Produce mapping service for provinces, districts, communes and villages,
including: hard copy maps, GIS database in MapInfo and ArcView.
Project: GIS-based Environmental Assessment for catchment area of Thai 2002

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Nguyen province
Contract research project with Department of Agriculture and Rural
Development
Summary
· Develop GIS database for catchment area.
· Site survey for updating land cover map
· GIS modeling for erosion assessment mapping
· Identify critical area of soil erosion and land slide
· Propose land use planning for catchment protection.
· Knowledge transfer for provincial staffs on basic GIS and Mapping
Project: Using GIS to develop Forest management scenarios for Quang Nam 1999
Province
Contract research project with Department of Agriculture and Rural
Development
Summary
· Develop GIS database for whole province
· Land Evaluation, suitability mapping for important agriculture and forestry
species
· Training provincial staffs for fundamental skill in GIS, Mapping and
Cartography
Project: Estimation of soil erosion of the Watershed areas of Ban-mai 1997
reservoir, Nghe An province, Vietnam.
Research contract project with Electrical Inventory and Design Inc., Ministry
of Energy
Summary
· Forest and land use mapping
· Establish a potential soil erosion map of the reservoir using Universion Soil
Lost Equation (USLE)
· The work including creation of several GIS layer such as: soil, land use,
slope, elevation. Data integration and modelling were implemented in
MapInfo and ILWIS