Catégorie : Forest accessibility

Sylvaccess : automated mapping of forest accessibility – (un modèle pour cartographier automatiquement l’accessibilité des forêts)

A french publication presents the automated tool Sylvaccessfor forest accessibility mapping, developped during the Newfor project. This tool is available in open-source. Dupire, Sylvain ; Bourrier, Franck ; Monnet, Jean-Matthieu ; Frédéric Berger 2015 – Sylvaccess : un modèle pour cartographier automatiquement l’accessibilité des forêts. – Revue Forestière Française, 2015, 70, 2, pp. 111-126. http://dx.doi.org/10.4267/2042/57902 …

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Newfor methodologies implemented in other projects

The methodologies of resource and accessibility (Sylvaccess) mapping developed during the Newfor project have been implemented in three projects involving Irstea. Project PlanEter: the tools were used to map the fuelwood resource in the Bas-Valais (Switzerland). Project report on fuelwood mapping (french) Project Forest Resource in Auvergne: the tools were used to map the forest …

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Main project deliverables available for download

Check out the Download page in the menu ! http://www.newfor.net/download/

Transfer of data and results to stakeholders, test site Jura

Forest managers and representatives of private and public forest attended a meeting organized to present the data and results of the Jura test area (Jan. 28th).  Resource (JM Monnet) and accessibility (S. Dupire) results were presented and the data transfer was discussed. The attendance sheet is available to logged-in users. Le 28 janvier, une réunion de présentation …

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Skidding with automatic chokers

FCBA published an article about the use of automatic chokers for skidding. Article (in French)

Newfor @ ForestSAT 2014

ForestSAT is a scientific conference dedicated to forest remote sensing. The 2014 edition was held in Riva del Garda (Italy), Nov. 4-8. Several Newfor partners attended the conference and presented some outcomes of the project: NEWFOR – Enhancing the wood supply chain within the alpine space – An insight in forest delineation, stratification of growing …

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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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FOREST OPERATION OPTIMIZATION USING GRAPH THEORY: AN EXAMPLE OF SKIDDING

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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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NEWFOR at Precision Forestry Symposium in South Africa

The work « Evaluation of forest growing stock accessibility for harvesting systems using LiDAR data » conducted in the NEWFOR test site Altopiano di Asiago have been presented from PP10 (TeSAF) at the Precision Forestry Symposium that have been held in Stellenbosch (South Africa) from the 3 – 5 March 2014. The presentation can be downloaded here: …

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