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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Meet our team: Postdoctoral fellow Binbin Xiang

We are proud to present our young colleagues in SmartForest! Binbin Xiang is a...

Katrin Zimmer 10. March 2025

Forest Inventory and Planning Seminar 2025

NMBU through SmartForest just hosted the 🌲 Forest Inventory and Planning Seminar 2025🌲 in Hol...

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...

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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