Smart Harvest Operations and Timber Processing for Improved Forest Management

Abstract Climate-smart forestry can be regarded as the evolution of traditional silviculture. As such, it must rely on smart harvesting equipment and techniques for a reliable effective application. The introduction sensors digital information technologies in forest inventories, operation planning, work execution enables achievement desired results provides range additional opportunities data. latter may help to better understand management options health, timber quality, many other applications. intelligent machines multiply beneficial effect data gathered monitoring management, resulting operations being more sustainable terms costs environment. interaction pushed even further by including processing industry, which assesses physical chemical characteristics wood with optimize transformation process. With support an item-level traceability system, same could provide formidable contribution CSF. “memory” scientists response trees climate-induced stresses design accordingly adaptive silviculture, contributing resilience face future changes due human-induced climate alteration.