Finnish app revolutionizes forestry measurementFriday 7 Nov 2014
Two former Nokia employees, Simo Kivimäki and Timo Rouvinen, felt it was about time forest inventory systems caught up with the digital era. In 2012 they launched Trestima, making forestry surveying processes more cost-efficient, accurate and reliable. Trestima’s Forest Inventory System enables easy capture, cloud storage and analysis of forestry data such as the number, height, width and volume of trees. Kivimäki and Rouvinen developed a smartphone app and tested it in a 20 hectare forest, taking random photos with their phones and analysing the data back in their office. What took them just 40 minutes normally would have taken a full working day with traditional methods, so they knew they were doing something right. Trestima has helped forestry companies cut down up to one-third of the time their workers have to spend in the forest surveying trees, declares Kivimäki. The average measurement speed is now less than five minutes per hectare. Also, the traditional method had an average 25 per cent error rate, whereas our system can get that down to less than ten per cent. Sweden, Canada and the USA are potential large markets for Tampere-based Trestima. But neighbouring Russia, the largest forest country in the world, offers the greatest promise for Trestima. Georgy Rybakov, CEO of RusFor Consult Oy Ab, is helping Trestima enter the Russian market. Russia’s forestry sector is quite inefficient in terms of forest data, says Rybakov. So Trestima can really help Russia’s forestry companies to more effectively measure, analyse and manage their forests. We have begun negotiations with a number of large Russian forestry companies and are planning pilot projects with them. One of the companies based in Siberia is already using Trestima and a few more companies based in Karelia, the Leningrad region and the Vologda region have already piloted the service. Kivimäki hopes Trestima will one day become the globally-recognized method for measuring timber in forests. With several new and innovative forestry-related products in the pipeline, Trestima has the potential to become a global player over the next few years. More >>. A raft of new tools and technologies for forest inventory will be explored as part of this region’s ForestTECH 2014 event running in Rotorua and Melbourne in just over two weeks. Full details can be found on the event website www.foresttech.events. | ||
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