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Logistic Models to Ensure Residual Agroforestry Biomass as a Sustainable Resource

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Sustainable development strategy promotes activities related to clean energy and energy saving. In this context, actions in forest and agricultural areas which add value to immediate productions and positive externalities are prioritized. The use of agricultural waste is often not viable due to high costs of harvesting and transport operations. In order to consider biomass as an agro forestry sustainable resource to produce biofuels, a high-level system based on the operational concept of the Biofuels Supply Chain sets the basis for a strategic framework which helps to overcome such sustainability. This chapter presents advanced techniques applied by the authors for the detection and quantification of biomass (LiDAR and multispectral images). From these results, logistic models are developed for determining the optimal collection points, managing the best transportation routes and deciding on the desirable location of the processing industries.

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Acknowledgments

The techniques shown in this chapter were developed by the project AGL2007-62328 funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Spain, and FEDER funds.

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  1. Departamento de Ingeniería Rural y Agroalimentaria, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain

    Borja Velázquez-Martí

  2. Departamento de Organización de Empresas, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain

    Carlos Gracia

  3. Departamento de Ingeniería Cartográfica, Geodesia y Fotogrametría, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain

    Javier Estornell

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Velázquez-Martí, B., Gracia, C., Estornell, J. (2012). Logistic Models to Ensure Residual Agroforestry Biomass as a Sustainable Resource. In: Golinska, P., Romano, C. (eds) Environmental Issues in Supply Chain Management. EcoProduction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23562-7_10

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