New results from soil preparation and a look to training courses – check out the latest EFFORTE deliverables!

Mechanization is common in Swedish forestry, particularly in activities relating to thinning, final felling and soil preparation. However, seedlings are still mostly planted using manual methods. Despite many trials, mechanized planting has yet to make a breakthrough in Swedish forestry. In our latest deliverable EFFORTE D2.2 Site preparation adjusted for mechanised planting we present results from a study aimed at developing continual inverse soil preparation method. In the study, three soil …

Better forest trafficability predictions on stage in MWP Symposium

The heart of EFFORTE is the group of researchers working in and for the project. Aura Salmivaara, post doc researcher from Natural Resources Institute (Luke) participated the program for young researchers organized by the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation including also the prize ceremony in the presence of HM King Carl XVI Gustaf and the symposium to celebrate the MWP 2017 laureate Prof. Ronald R. Sederoff. Aura’s own presentation visioned the “Google …

It starts with the map

Different applications are used for almost everything nowadays, and they are making things easier in both working life and personal life. Forestry operations don’t make an exception. But sometimes simple solutions can be just as good as a fancy app, with too much data and calculations and thereby bigger risk of miscalculations. When it comes to efficient forestry, it is little surprising but absolutely wonderful to hear that sustainable solutions …

Big Data: the key element of new tools for forestry

  In EFFORTE, August 2017 was time to prepare and finish 4 deliverables. These deliverables were strongly focused on Big Data and applications using it. In the project one key objective is to describe all meaningful and potential forestry related Big Data and to create decision-support models, such as forestry applications based on these data. They aim to increase cost-efficiency and new business opportunities in forest operations – sustainably, of …

EFFORTE project in France: Let’s talk about soil!

When planning and undertaking logging operations in the plains, French forest companies are often confronted with multiple challenges related to soil bearing capacity and respective sensitiveness towards compaction and rutting. Risk mitigation measures are already in place both in the forest management plan and the pre-harvest planning but some knowledge gaps still hinder efficiency. French mineral soils make it a hard job because forest soils are heterogeneous and sensitive situations …

New deliverables unwrap big data in forestry

Interested in big data and its usage in forestry? Have a look to our newest deliverables D3.3, D3.4 and D3.6 and find out how it was used in the work. These fresh-from-the-oven deliverables are about producing forest trafficability maps (D3.3), how those maps can be used in precision forestry (D3.4), and how to improve the efficiency in regeneration activities (D3.6). These deliverables are outputs of the work package on big data …

New version of the common protocol related to forest soil trafficability developed in WP1

The 28th of March, 2017, a scientific workshop was organized at FCBA’s headquarters in France, dealing with forest soil trafficability and all the potential impacts such as compaction and rutting due to intense traffic during logging operations. About 20 people attended to this meeting, coming from seven European countries and 13 research organizations. The objectives were to: Bring together a scientific community around the theme of forest soil trafficability; Exchange …

What are the challenges to succeed in driving traceless?

Today we have the knowledge and the technology to harvest and transport timber without causing damage to soil and water. In the film Traceless, machine operators and researchers show how it is possible. “It takes us longer to find the right main logging roads, due to more precipitation and shorter periods with frost in the ground. Quite often we have to drive around wetter patches to avoid rutting, and that …

Scientific workshop on forest soil trafficability

The EFFORTE project’s work package on trafficability (WP1) organises a scientific workshop in Champs-sur-Marne on March 28, 2017. Objectives of the workshop are to bring together a scientific community around the theme of forest soil trafficability. 20 participants coming from 7 European countries and 13 research organizations are joining in the workshop to exchange on the work carried out in on-going or past projects, experimental sites and field tests. In addition, the …

EFFORTE featured in the UK’s Forestry & Timber News

The EFFORTE project is featured in the December 2016 issue of UK’s Forestry& Timber News. EFFORTE partners in the UK, Woodilee Consultancy and James Jones will undertake a field experiment in relation to trafficability of harvesting sites. These field trials will be performed in the Aberdeenshire area on sandy, loam, clay soils. In the article, Shaun Mochan, managing director of Woodilee Consultancy Ltd, explains the aims of the trials in Scotland. …