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2010 Precision Forestry Symposium |
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| MONDAY: 1 March 2010 | |||
| 8:00 - 8:45 | Registration | ||
| 8:45 - 9:00 | Welcome and Opening | P. Ackerman & L. Van Huyssteen | |
| KEYNOTE: | |||
| 9:00 - 9:45 | New Sensor Technologies and Analytical Tools for Precision Forest Management | Glen Murphy | |
| Session 1: Non-destructive wood quality assessment and wood quality modelling | |||
| Session chair: | Antti Asikainen | ||
| 09:45 - 10:05 | Integrating terrestrial laser scanning based inventory with sawing simulation | T. Seifert, H-J. Klemmt, S. Seifert, A. Kunneke & C.B. Wessels | |
| 10:05-10:25 | The non-destructive determination and modelling of knotty core sizes of pruned Pinus patula trees on a compartment basis | F. Munalula & C.B. Wessels | |
| 10:25- 11:00 | TEA BREAK | ||
| Session 2: Forest operations simulations | |||
| Session chair: | Walter Warkotsch | ||
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Discrete event simulation of wood harvesting processes in the Virtual Forest | T. Wolferstetter | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Discrete-event simulation - an advanced method for analyzing complex logging operations | K. Väätäinen | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Operational efficiency of the year-round CTL-harvesting on sensitive sites in Finland - A simulation study | S. Lamminen, K. Väätäinen & A. Asikainen | |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | An evaluation of skyline systems in Norwegian conditions using discrete-event simulation | A. Asikainen, Karl Stampfer & B. Talbot | |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Aspects of modeling time for simulators of harvesting operations | R. Pausch | |
| 12:40 - 13:00 | Multi-stem mechanised harvesting operation analysis – application of Arena 9 discrete-event simulation software in Zululand, Souh Africa | R. Pulkki, G. Hogg & P Ackerman | |
| 13:00 - 13:15 | GROUP PHOTO | ||
| 13:15 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK | ||
| Session 3: Remote sensing and mensuration | |||
| Session chair: | Anton Kunneke | ||
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Determining stand value and log product yields using terrestrial LIDAR and optimal bucking algorithms: Experiences from Oregon, Australia and Ireland | G. Murphy & M. Acuna | |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Using high-resolution satellite imagery and double sampling as a cost-effective means of collecting forest inventory data - the case of Hans Kanyinga Community Forest, Namibia | J. Kamwi & C. Kätsch | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Forest modelling from earth observation data in forestry plantations | N. Mönnig, F. Holecz, C. Eyre & F. Seifert | |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | Incorporating fibre attributes into Canadian forest inventories | A. Groot & D. Pitt | |
| 15:20 - 16:00 | TEA BREAK | ||
| Session 4: Remote sensing and mensuration continues | |||
| Session chair: | Bruce Talbot | ||
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Method for estimating forest biomass potentials for Central Finland with biomass maps and GIS analysis | J. Mustonen, P. Anttila, A. Lehtonen & S. Tuominen | |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | Airborne Lidar in the Forestry Industry | N. Banks | |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | The use of Hyper spectral Imagery for Forestry Applications in South Africa | A. Fortescue | |
| 17:00 - 18:00 | Poster Session | ||
| 18:00 - 20:00 | Session 5: WELCOME FUNCTION AT STIAS | ||
| Posters | |||
| 17:10 - 18:00 | Detection of forest management operations using bi-temporal aerial photographs | P. Hyvönen, J. Heinonen & A. Haara | |
| New method for measuring dynamic pressure under forest tires | T. Purfürst & J. Erler | ||
| Productivity and cost of stump wood harvesting | J. Laitila | ||
| Parameters of the natural environment of forests as a basis for the optimization of management technologies | J. Simon, A. Skoupy & J. Kulhavy | ||
| Automated forestry geoinformation productions form remote sensing imagery | W. Luck | ||
| Actual development of the Precision Forestry related research at Technical University in Zvolen | J. Tucek | ||
| Resource Planning System for Bioenergy Operations | S. Huurinainen & E. Mikkonen | ||
| TUESDAY: 2 March 2010 | |||
| Session 6: Equipment monitoring and management | |||
| Session chair: | Martin Ziesak | ||
| 8:30 - 8:50 | User guide for the selection of onboard technology in Australian harvesting operations | M. Strandgard | |
| 8:50 - 9:10 | Path tracking for autonomous forwarders in forest terrain | D. Athanassiadis, D. Bergström, T. Hellström, O. Lindroos, T. Nordfjell & O. Ringdahl | |
| 9:10 - 9:30 | The accuracy of positioning forestry vehicles under canopy | T. Purfürst & J. Erler | |
| 9:30 - 9:50 | FPSuite: An integrated process control platform for forestry operations | J. Favreau | |
| 9:50 - 10:10 | Side effect of strip-road compaction | R. Klvac, P. Holcikova, P. Dundek, M. Kleibl & V. Markes | |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Wander factors for skid distance estimation in Pine thinnings | B.S. Folegatti, M. Smidt & T.P. McDonald | |
| 10:30 - 10:50 | Reduction in unloaded log transport mileage using route optimization | T. McDonald, K. Haridass, M. Smidt & J. Valenzuela | |
| 10:50 - 11:30 | TEA BREAK | ||
| Field trip | |||
| 11:30 - 19:00 | Visit MTO Forestry plantations in Boland, Western Cape, to view current Precision Forestry initiatives | A Kunneke, P. Ackerman, T Seifert & B. du Toit | |
| WEDNESDAY: 3 March 2010 | |||
| Session 8: Equipment monitoring and management continues | |||
| Session chair: | Bo Dahlin | ||
| 8:30 - 8:50 | An electronic device to map tree seedling locations while hand planting | T. McDonald, J. Fulton, M. Darr & S. Taylor | |
| 8:50 - 9:10 | Profor: The development of an integrated equipment management system | M. Ziesak | |
| Supply chain optimisation | |||
| 9:10 - 9:30 | Reducing transportation costs through the application of performance based standard and hybrid technology, and optimal truck scheduling systems | M. Acuna, M. Brown & M. Strandgard | |
| 9:30 - 9:50 | Optimal allocation of the forest resource to match raw material with industry needs | T. Smaltschinski, M. Opferkuch & G. Becker | |
| 9:50 - 10:10 | Think outside the box - new approaches to optimize forest fuel supply chains | J. Windisch, D. Röser, L. Sikanen | |
| 10:10 - 10:30 | Reducing pulp mill wood variation by including wood properties in harvest scheduling decision-making | C.S. Price, F. Blakeway, F. Ahmed & J.-R. Tapamo | |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | TEA BREAK | ||
| Session 9: Supply chain optimisation | |||
| Session chair: | Reino Pulkki | ||
| 11:00 - 11:20 | A GIS-based model for evaluating supply chains of forest biomass for energy | P. Anttila & T. Tahvanainen | |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Raw material supply for sustainable pellet production in Europe | R. Prinz & D. Röser | |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | The fate of simulated vs. real tagged logs in identifying principal contributors to value adding in the wood supply chain - does traceability pay? | B. Talbot & N. Søvde | |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | A new solution approach to include wood properties in integrated bucking, sorting and transportation planning | P. Flisberg, M. Nordström, M. Rönnqvist, K. Westlund & L. Wilhelmsson | |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | The use of RFID in round wood logistics | C. Kaul | |
| Cost Action PF 0902 | |||
| 12:40 - 13:10 | Overview of Cost Action PF0902: Forest Biomass Supply | R. Prinz | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | LUNCH BREAK | ||
| Session 10: Landscape assessment and planning | |||
| Session chair: | Walter Warkotsch | ||
| 14:00 - 14:20 | Opportunities, Current & Future for precision forestry application in South Australia | J. O'Hehir | |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | The influence of the quality of data in forest road planning - a case study form Russia | P. Mönkkönen, M. Havimo, E.Lopatin & B. Dahlin | |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Simulations of forest landscapes based on knN data | O. Sallnäs & R. Trubins | |
| 15:00 - 15:20 | An extraction trail generator using LIDAR data and Tabu search | N. Søvde, A. Løkketangen & B. Talbot | |
| 15:20 - 16:00 | TEA BREAK | ||
| Session 11: Growth simulation at single tree and stand level | |||
| Session chair: | Thomas Seifert | ||
| 16:00 - 16:20 | IVY: An individual-tree growth model for complex-stands | A. Groot | |
| 16:20 - 16:40 | ComBio - Estimation tool for combined energy wood and pulp wood harvesting | K. Pasanen | |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Utilizing stem level data to develop site-specific values and management zones | C. Brodbeck, J. Fulton, T. McDonald, S. Taylor & J. Shaw | |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | CLOSURE | P. Ackerman | |
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Updated: March 2010