Forestry is one of the earlier BDS applications. Forestry management departments use BDS to carry out forestry resource inventory, forestry management and inspection. In that way, the management cost has been greatly reduced and the work efficiency of forestry has been well improved.

The sector mainly includes the applications of forest area estimation, timber volume estimation, ranger woodland patrol, forest-fire prevention, determination of regional boundaries, and etc. Among them, ranger woodland patrol and forest-fire prevention utilizes the unique BDS SMS functions. 

In particular, combined with remote sensing technologies, BDS  has played an important role in the National Forest Resources Survey. Moreover, with the implementation of collective forest ownership in China’s forest areas, BDS has also been widely applied in boundaries exploration and ownership recognition.