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Geraneia mountains: “For the first time reforestation with a drone by the Agricultural University of Athens”

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The dean of the School of Environmental and Agricultural Engineering of the Agricultural University of Athens and professor of Water Resources Management, Christos Karavitis, talks about the innovative pilot method of reforestation from the air

Interview with Korina Georgiou

A year and a half after the great fire in the Geraneia Mountains in May 2021, the team of the Agricultural University of Athens, consisting of professors, auxiliary research staff and post-graduate doctoral candidates, was invited to contribute to the reforestation of the area by using a drone to seed in difficult and inaccessible areas places that could hardly be reached by pedestrian sections.

The dean of the School of Environmental and Agricultural Engineering of the Agricultural University of Athens and professor of Water Resources Management, Christos Karavitis, talks to “Eco News” and Korina Georgiou about the pioneering pilot method of reforestation from the air, which for the first time in the world is applied to inhomogeneous soils.

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