The next generation of forest inventory

Información del proyecto

forecast

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 868479

DOI

10.3030/868479

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 29 Abril 2019

Fecha de inicio 1 Mayo 2019

Fecha de finalización 31 Agosto 2019

Financiado con arreglo a

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Coste total

€ 71 429,00

Aportación de la UE

€ 50 000,00

Coordinado por

FORA FOREST TECHNOLOGIES SLL
Spain

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - forecast (The next generation of forest inventory)

Período documentado: 2019-05-01 hasta 2019-08-31

Resumen del contexto y de los objetivos generales del proyecto

The major aim of the feasibility study is to guarantee the technical/commercial feasibility of the förecast v2.1 and provide föra with a scale-up and validation roadmap of all the components that will form the full platform. To have a successful market uptake and establish the desired leading position, it is essential to strategically plan a feasible and realistic roadmap for the next 2 years’ work to optimize our technology and to attain commercial deployment and expansion, taking into account a detailed risk assessment and a mitigation plan accordingly.

Accurate mapping of tree species and estimation of wood volume and biomass are important assignments of any Forest Inventory. However, forestry operations currently rely heavily on forest inventories that employ field plot data as a basis for estimating forest attributes. Therefore, forest and wood managers often lack accurate / up-to-date data to support the full wood production (and other ecosystem services) cycle coherently. Traditional ground-based forest inventories characterize forests from the ecologic and dasometric perspective; but these are expensive, laborious, time-consuming and typically planned on a 10 year basis. This labour-intensive approach provides limited information and has become a costly bottleneck in completing operations

förecast will help the forest sector to make better decisions on their resources. Those decisions will clearly and positively affect society since Sustainable Forest Management procedures will be widespreaded. Better decisions means better forest. Thus, better environment for all.

Trabajo realizado desde el comienzo del proyecto hasta el final del período abarcado por el informe y los principales resultados hasta la fecha

The Feasibility Study conducted ensured the technical/commercial feasibility of the förecast v2.1 platform. föra has defined the platform automation and validation roadmap of all the components that will conform the platform architecture and product applications suite. A strategic and realistic roadmap for the next 2 years’s work has been defined to optimize the technology and to attain commercial deployment.

Avances que van más allá del estado de la técnica e impacto potencial esperado (incluida la repercusión socioeconómica y las implicaciones sociales más amplias del proyecto hasta la fecha)

förecast represents a game-changing technology towards a dynamic monitoring of the forest, maintaining the accuracy over-time. Accurate and dynamic vegetation models will represent crucial growth factors that influence how, where, how much and what kind of vegetation grows in a given place.

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