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 25. August 202625. August 2026

A comparison of single-photon lidar, conventional lidar, and digital aerial photogrammetry for area-based forest inventory

Can single-photon lidar (SPL) make forest inventories more cost-efficient? More than...

Katrin Zimmer 29. June 202629. June 2026

Semantic segmentation of forest stands using deep learning

A new SmartForest article is out on how AI can help draw forest stand boundaries, based...

Katrin Zimmer 15. June 202615. June 2026

Introducing SegmentAnyTreeV2 (SaTv2)

After the success of SegmentAnyTree, we are excited to share SegmentAnyTreeV2 — the la...

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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