Work Packages – SmartForest

Work Packages

SmartForest is the next leap in efficiency and environmental performance of the forest sector and will be enabled by digitalization and knowledge-based management.

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. The digital transformation will be enabled by a series of innovations that will form the foundation for the development for of a strong Forest-tech sector in Norway.

SmartForest is divided in five work packages, and within each we have defined tasks which will be annually updated.

WP1: Forest Information

The focus in WP1 is the development of improved forest information. Combining data from emerging technologies can lead to significant improvements in forest information, creating continuously updated, more comprehensive forest information covering a broad spectrum of variables and harvesting systems.

WP2: Precision silviculture

WP2 focuses on cost-efficient digital decision support systems for precision silvicultural practices. By applying emerging technologies, precision silviculture will deliver operationally feasible and cost-efficient production systems.

WP3: Forest Operations and Wood Supply

WP 3 develops and integrates digital planning, operational tools and information systems to optimize forest operations end-to-end. These elements enable data-driven planning, safer and lower-impact operations, resilient, and fully traceable, quality-assured wood supply chains that meet regulatory and market requirements.

WP4: Environmental information

WP 4 develops systems and tools to enable sufficient mapping of environmental data covering the entire harvest planning, operation and post-processing. Together, these methods and systems enable the procurement of georeferenced environmental datasets to support certification, monitoring and adaptive management.

WP5: AI methods

WP 5 consolidates AI development across modalities to support forest operations: advanced point-cloud and image models, real-time lidar processing for robotic applications, and LLM-orchestrated decision-support layers integrating model outputs and user inputs.

WP6: From Research to Innovation

WP6 coordinates activities that translate research outputs into innovations and integrate across production chains. It covers innovation management, as well as deployment in demonstration areas and documentation systems.