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Nov 25 2014
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 …
Nov 25 2014
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 …
Nov 18 2014
FOREST OPERATION OPTIMIZATION USING GRAPH THEORY: AN EXAMPLE OF SKIDDING
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Oct 16 2014
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 …
Oct 13 2014
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 …
Oct 07 2014
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 …