Abstract
Forest trees harvesting is an important component of the forest resources management process. However, it causes several ecological damage on the forest ecosystem. Thus, approaches for automating or aiding the trees harvesting activities are essential to reduce damage and to ensure a sustainable management of the forest ecosystem. Moreover, an efficient and low-cost trees harvesting is financially important, as it is likely to impact the profitability of a particular management plan. This paper describes a spatial optimization approach to include ecological constraints in scheduling directions for harvesting trees using GIS based techniques. We present an experiment on real data in the forest of “Montagne Tortue” in French Guiana.