Wrapping up wheeling experiments in Scottish project meeting

Twenty-four colleagues from four countries attended the fourth EFFORTE meeting covering two days, in Scotland during May 2018. The meeting concentrated on work to date in relation to wheeling experiments and silvicultural practices for planning and support using Big Data analytics. A look back and frames for future work Scotland compared data and experiment protocols from other EU partners clearfell areas of forest and no thin. Those do not pose …

How to preserve forest soils in a context of increased harvest of timber? Join a seminar in France on 25 June!

How to preserve forest soils in a context of increased harvest of timber? What is the impact of the intensification of timber harvesting on forest soils and what are the good management practices to be implemented? The seminar day on 25 June 2018 in Paris, France takes stock of these questions. Several projects are taking part and giving presentations, including EFFORTE. The program of the day includes presentations by representatives of …

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 …

Photogrammetry or traditional methods for soil investigation? Check new article!

Compaction and rutting on forest soils are consequences of harvesting operations. The traditional methods used to investigate these consequences are time consuming and unable to represent the entire longitudinal profile for a forest trail. New methods based on photogrammetry have been developed. The overall objective in the article was to compare photogrammetry and traditional methods (e.g. cone penetrometer, manual rut depth measurements, bulk density and porosity) used for the evaluation …

Transforming forestry with data – See EFFORTE article in Leia magazine

Last year’s second issue of Leia, the customer magazine of Natural Resources Institute Finland provides a reading recommendation for forestry enthusiasts. Article “Big Data is transforming forestry” on pages 12 and 13 explains the three elements of streamlined and more efficient forest operations – the future of forest work. Check also side column to find out why companies find it very important to participate research and get the most out …

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 …