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 9. June 2026

Automated forest road monitoring and classification with RoadSens

Two new SmartForest publications just got showing how sensor-based and AI-supported approaches...

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...

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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