SmartForest – We will work smarter, more efficiently and with more precision in forestry

Bringing Industry 4.0 to the Norwegian Forest Sector

The primary objective of SmartForest is to improve the efficiency of the Norwegian forest sector by enabling a digital revolution transforming forest information, silviculture, forest operations, wood supply and the overall digital information flow in the sector.

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Katrin Zimmer 7. February 2025

Benchmarking tree species classification from proximally sensed laser scanning data: Introducing the FOR-species20K dataset

FOR-species20K was just published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution! With 20K trees...

Katrin Zimmer 24. January 2025

PhD scholarship within use of AI for forest mapping

The Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management at the Norwegian...

Katrin Zimmer 7. January 2025

Assessing the importance of detailed forest inventory information using stochastic programming

Olha Nahorna, PhD candidate in SmartForest, just published an article on "Assessing the...

The SFI SmartForest is a part of the Centres for Research-based Innovation scheme of the Research Council of Norway, with a project period from 2020 – 2028.

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