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 8. June 20268. June 2026

Evaluating the value of raster cell-level information in multi-objective forest planning

Olha Nahorna finished her PhD in SmartForest last year, and the last study of her work,...

Katrin Zimmer 29. May 202629. May 2026

Data Assimilation Alliance meeting in Helsinki

Last week, SmartForest, represented by Erik Næsset from NMBU, Norwegian University of...

Katrin Zimmer 6. May 20266. May 2026

FOR-age: Benchmarking individual tree age estimation using 3D deep learning on dense laser scanning data.

FOR-age: Benchmarking individual tree age estimation using 3D deep learning on dense laser...

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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