Our research in a nutshell:

The intended impacts are to:

Within SmartForest a group of interdisciplinary scientific researchers aim to generate a better understanding of the forest value chain in order to improve the forest sector in Norway.

We believe that with digitalization in the forest sector we will work smarter, more efficiently and with more precision in forestry.

SmartForest will result in a long-term, world-leading, industry-focused R&D environment center around the application of enabling technologies for digital transformation of the forest sector.

The intended impacts are to:

Digital technologies

Ensure that the Norwegian forest sector will be managed using leading edge digital technologies

Create innovations

Apply the emerging enabling technologies in the forest sector to create a series of innovations that can be operationalized and commercialized by the SmartForest partners

Improve value production

Improve information, increased production efficiency, improved environmental efficiency, and overall increased value production from the forest-based value chain

Improve recruitment

Improve the recruitment of professionals and young researchers in forestry

Contribute to the green shift

Contribute towards the required green shift in the Norwegian industry by: (1) facilitating increased value creation and international competitiveness of the Norwegian forest sector, and (2) create the foundation for a Forest-tech sector in Norway