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 29. April 202629. April 2026

Assessing airborne laser scanning and spectral data for species-specific retention tree information

A new SmartForest article on Assessing airborne laser scanning and spectral data for species-specific...

Katrin Zimmer 26. March 202626. March 2026

Two PhD scholarships: Remote sensing and AI for improved forest mapping and precision forestry

Would you like to explore AI methods for forest mapping? The Faculty of Environmental...

Katrin Zimmer 20. March 202623. March 2026

Research Exchange with University of Trento and Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy

Håkon Næss Sandum and Julius Wold, both PhD candidates at NMBU conducted a 4 month research s...

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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