Catégorie : Activities

NEWFOR @ 2nd International Congress of Silviculture – Florence 26th-29th November 2014

« LiDAR as a support for the sustainable management of mountain forests: High Susa Valley test site »

NEWFOR @ FORMEC-FEC 2014 – Analyzing forwarder operation by consumer-grade GPS in mountainous conditions

The potential of Global Positioning System (GPS) in forestry applications has been already proven. Even if the use of GPS under forest canopy is problematic in terms of performance and accuracy, its installation on forest machineries is considered an innovative technology to extract basic information such as point to point distance, traveled distance, mean and …

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Wood Fuel Calculator – preliminary calculation of different units of firewood (bulk, mass, energy)

The Wood Fuel Calculator is a tool that can be used to preliminary calculation of different typical units (bulk, mass energy). For this calculation different factors are used. It is not necessary that this calculation always represent real situation, but still gives us orientation in converting and comparison between different units of fuel-wood. The Calculator …

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Estimating ICE-BREAK damages in forests stands using LiDAR data

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FOREST OPERATION OPTIMIZATION USING GRAPH THEORY: AN EXAMPLE OF SKIDDING

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WoodChainManager – the online application to visualize and to summarize costs of the forestry-wood supply chain.

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NEWFOR Final Conference

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Newfor present at IUFRO World Congress

Two models developed at Irstea Grenoble within the framework of the Newfor Project have been presented during the IUFRO (International Union of Forest Research Organizations) World Congress in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA 5-11 October 2014. This international event is programmed every 4 years. This year it gathered about 2500 professionals from the forestry sector …

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Co-Registration of Forest Inventory Plots with ALS Data

Jean-Matthieu Monnet  and Éric Mermin. 2014. « Cross-Correlation of Diameter Measures for the Co-Registration of Forest Inventory Plots with Airborne Laser Scanning Data. » Forests 5(9), pp. 2307-2326.  Article available online at http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/5/9/2307 Abstract: Continuous maps of forest parameters can be derived from airborne laser scanning (ALS) remote sensing data. A prediction model is calibrated between local …

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Newfor@FEC

Some outcomes of Newfor project were presented at the Fifth Forest Engineering Conference during September 23-26, 2014 in Gerardmer, France. P. Magaud and A. Bouvet from FCBA presented a poster about « Productivity analysis of current cable yarding operations in « the French Alps« . Th. Carrette and Ch. Ginet from FCBA gave a talk about « Analysis of …

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