Vietnam to use satellite data to monitor forests, water resourcesVietNamNet Bridge - Scientists and natural resource management agencies will no longer have to pay for optical images for forest inventory and surveys after the Vietnam DataCube, a satellite database, is put into operation. FIPl is carrying out a forest inventory projectFIPl is carrying out a forest inventory project in 2016-2020 and has to release reports on changes in the forests. With access to image sources of Vietnam DataCube, the task can be implemented properly. In 2017, the Forest Inventory and Planning Department (FIPl) in 2017 signed an MOU with the Vietnam Space Center on using satellite data in forest inventory.FIPl is one of the institutes which use satellite images regularly in their work. However, many problems existed.As these were optical images, their quality could not meet standards and they were also very costly.