The SmartForest team at NMBU and NIBIO is growing with 2 new colleagues starting just before summer break.
Alexander Scharf started his position as Postdoctoral Fellow at NIBIO in the beginning of April. In SmartForest, Alexander will work on wood quality and traceability, building up on the work of the SmartForest team, who collect and prepare data from manual measurements, drones, harvesters, and sawmills.
His focus is on linking these datasets into a unified picture, uncovering patterns that reveal how forest management decisions and stem and crown characteristics can influence wood quality, sawmill allocation, and potential product types. It is a unique opportunity to work with such comprehensive data across the entire value chain, enabling insights that were not possible before.
Kim André Anstensen Nielsen has been a part of the team at NMBU since beginning of May. He will work on his PhD with the topic “Combining remote sensing and AI for assessing forest attributes, structural complexity and biodiversity indicators in boreal forests”. He will study how much spatial detail is needed in the point cloud data from remote sensing to accurately predict and detect different aspects of the forests, ranging from simple to complex structures and specific biodiversity indicators and habitats.
Welcome to the team!