This week we had the chance to meet the consortium of our Centre for Research-based Innovation during our 2 day annual meeting , the SmartForest days.
It was a pleasure to see so many from industry and research gathered, exchanging news and catching up!
On the first day of the event, we had an engaging conference filled with insightful sessions on sharing of environmental data, with valuable input from our industry partners at Norges Skogeierforbund, Viken Skog, and Glommen Mjøsen Skog. We also devoted a session to Innovation with Ard Innovation and Erik Willén from Stora Enso. We used the opportunity to inform about some highlights from the work of the centre like ForestSens, our AI-driven cloud platform (forestsens.com), wood quality estimation with Moelven, and developments of operational systems for damage evaluation after storms with Skogbrand Forsikringsselskap.
Some of the PhD candidates in SmartForest also presented their work on
- Mapping of natural forests with deep learning (Julius Wold)
- Stand segmentation with AI (Håkon Næss Sandum)
- Tracking of logs from the forest to the sawmill using tracking codes and object detection models (Yohann Jacob Sandvik)
- Assessing the importance of accurate forest data in forest planning and decision-making processes (Olha Nahorna)
- Automated classification of roads and maintenance needs for better planning (Helle Ross Gobakken)
On the second day, we had an excursion to a research forest in Våler, with a high number of permanent inventory plots. Here, SmartForest presented some of its work in four stations on
- Forest Roads
- Site index and tree species identification
- Retention trees
- Mission planning for collection of airborne laser scanning data explained by Field and segmentation of single trees
It was a great setting, to discuss our research findings, procedures and innovations in a more practical setting.