slope final conference - general presentation

This project has received funding from the

European Union’s Seventh Framework

Programme for research, technological

development and demostration under

grant agreement no 604129

www.slopeproject.eu

SLOPEIntegrated proceSsing and controL systems fOr

sustainable forest Production in mountain arEas

SLOPE Final Conference10th November, EIMA 2016, Bologna

FP7 Project GA 604129 36 Months Budget 5M€

PRECISION FORESTRY FOR MOUNTAIN TIMBER AND BIOMASS PRODUCTION






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Introduction

• Forests in mountainous areas: 23% of the Earth• Mountain forest management & production ≠ industrial management• Difficult mountain conditions

• Steep terrain• Limited accessibility• Long vegetative succession• Hydro-geological constraints

• Manual operations:• Tree marking• Felling

• Increased operation costs






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Goals

Improve, harmonize and optimize the wood processing chain from the forest to the market• Integrated processing: all actors interact together providing and sharing information

to create a forest data model;• Integrated control systems: real-time quality assessment and tracking• Sustainable forest production: transport optimization, response to market demands• Mountain areas: specific focus on high slope area where operations are difficult






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The typical scenario

Selection Cutting and debranching

Harvesting and logging Transport Sawmill

processing Selling

Problems• Right areas/trees selection: demand/quality/optimization• Operational areas selection in the forest: harvesting, processing, stocking• Slope: optimize carriage system placement• Transport: path optimization among sawmills, reduce loading and unloading times• Logs quality: maximize final product value• Other actors involved






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The SLOPE scenario

Forest Survey (RS, UAV, TLS)

Digital Forest Model Creation

Harvest plan and

simulation

Trees Marking

(RFID)Trees Felling

ExtractionTrees

processing

Piling stocking

transportSelling






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Forest Survey through Remote Sensing

Satellite imageries evaluated under different indexes to inspect wide areas: • NDVI: Normalized Digital Vegetation

Index• CCCI: Canopy, Chlorophyl Context Index• NDRE: Normalized Difference Red Edge

Index






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Forest Survey Through UAVs






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Forest Survey Through Laser Scanner






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Digital forest model creation






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Harvesting Plan and Simulation






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Tree marking






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Tree felling, extraction, processing






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Piling, stocking and transport






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Selling






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Integration of forest inventory with harvesting data

Forest Model Inventory Database

Wifi (in field)

Automation Controller

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Wifi (home)

Wifi (home)

HD or GPRS

Automation Controller

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Wifi

Black box (quality index)

GPRS or WiFi

iTruck

LAN






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Consortium

Italy• Fondazione Graphitech: Interactive Geographical

Visualization and Coordination

• CNR-Ivalsa: Novel sensing techniques for harvesting machines

• Compolab: Mechanical Engineering and Prototype Design

• FlyBy: Digital imaging, remote sensing, optical sensor data processing

• Greifenberg: Cable crane carriage and other forest mechanization systems

Ireland• Treemetrics: Terrestrial Laser Scanning, 3D reconstruction

and operational planning• Coastway: UAV and laser scanning technology (point cloud)

Finland• MHG: Bioenergy ERP platform (end-users, operators,

brokers, etc.)

Austria• BOKU: harvesting planning, road and logistic evaluation

Spain• ITENE: woods traceability, improve logistic models,

dissemination






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Thank You

Daniele Magliocchetti

Project [email protected]

Fondazione GraphiTechVia alla Cascata 56/c38123 Trento (ITALY)

Phone: +39 0461.283393Fax: +39 0461.283398

www.graphitech.it

mailto:[email protected]

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