ForestGPT
Smart Assistant for Forest Management in Castile and León
Luce Innovative Technologies (Luce IT)
Regional Government of Castile and León — Calabazanos Forest Health Center (SPIRF/CMSF)
AI Assistant Specializing in Forest Management for Castile and León
What is it and what is it used for?
ForestGPT is an artificial intelligence assistant specializing in forest management for Castile and León. It allows forestry technicians and government officials to search, using natural language, the region’s forestry document repository: Zone Reports, the Forestry Atlas, ZEPA regulations, and the Castilla y León Forestry Plan. The system retrieves relevant information from the documents and generates accurate responses with citations from the original source, facilitating decision-making both in the field and in the office.
The problem it solves
Forestry knowledge in the Community of Castile and León is scattered across hundreds of technical documents that are difficult to consult. Technicians spend valuable time searching for information on species, soils, forest stations, or regulations in extensive manuals. ForestGPT centralizes this knowledge and makes it immediately accessible, reducing the burden of manual searches and increasing the technical consistency of the responses.
"ForestGPTputs Castilla y León's forestry knowledge right in every technician's pocket, with accurate answers that are always backed by official documents."
What makes it innovative?
Combining RAG with a forest-specific document corpus from Castile and León
The combination of RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) with a forest-specific document corpus from the Community of Castile and León (CyL)—semantic chunking by forest station—allows each response to accurately cite the Zone Handbook, station number, elevation, soil type, and recommended species. Unlike generic chatbots, ForestGPT does not invent information: it responds only with what is documented, including the exact reference to the source document.
Expected impact
Improved efficiency in forest management by the Regional Government of Castile and León, reducing the time required for technical consultations and standardizing operational criteria. In the long term, this facilitates the proper implementation of reforestation plans and SPA regulations, contributing to sustainable forest management. Socially, it democratizes access to technical forestry knowledge, even for field technicians in areas with limited connectivity.
