Nordic forestry

Forest technology news from Sweden, Finland and Norway: Metsä, Södra, SCA, Skogforsk, Luke, NIBIO and the Nordic startup scene.

Nordic forestry

Global Forester goes live in Claude, Finnos lets AI agents plan the sawmill | #071

Nov 10, 2026

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Global Forester goes live in Claude, Finnos lets AI agents plan the sawmill | #071

Global Forester goes live in Claude

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Terra Labs adds an AI forest agent, Valmet buys Tieto's mill software | #070

Nov 3, 2026

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Terra Labs adds an AI forest agent, Valmet buys Tieto's mill software | #070

Terra Labs adds an AI forest agent

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

Kodama raises $7M for remote-run skidders, Södra seeks fixes for browsing damage | #069

Oct 27, 2026

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Kodama raises $7M for remote-run skidders, Södra seeks fixes for browsing damage | #069

Kodama raises $7M for skidders

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

Finland tests apps in its forest inventory, Skogforsk simulates drone thinning | #068

Oct 20, 2026

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Finland tests apps in its forest inventory, Skogforsk simulates drone thinning | #068

Finland tests apps on forest plots

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

Finnish AI drones spray moose repellent on seedlings, Hyne Timber adds X-ray log scanning | #067

Oct 13, 2026

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Finnish AI drones spray moose repellent on seedlings, Hyne Timber adds X-ray log scanning | #067

Drones dose single pine seedlings

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

Sweden maps forest age and site index, Skogforsk bucking tool on harvester data | #066

Oct 6, 2026

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Sweden maps forest age and site index, Skogforsk bucking tool on harvester data | #066

Sweden maps forest age nationally

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

AI maps Swedish canopy height from open data, Palantir CEO buys Härjedalen forest | #065

Sep 29, 2026

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AI maps Swedish canopy height from open data, Palantir CEO buys Härjedalen forest | #065

An AI firm maps Sweden's forest

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Metsä prices forest work with AI, Finland audits subsidies from orbit | #064

Sep 22, 2026

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Metsä prices forest work with AI, Finland audits subsidies from orbit | #064

Also: a digital twin for Swedish timber haulage, RIEGL's five-return drone lidar, and a free forest risk tool for US landowners

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Sveaskog tests load-measuring crane, Södra forest plans update from satellite | #063

Sep 15, 2026

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Sveaskog tests load-measuring crane, Södra forest plans update from satellite | #063

Also: Sentinel volume model moves from Norway to Finland, windthrow AI fails abroad, ForestrySA adds a Pano AI fire camera

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Romania tracks timber lorries by permit, Skogforsk's Autoplant planting machine | #062

Sep 8, 2026

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Romania tracks timber lorries by permit, Skogforsk's Autoplant planting machine | #062

Also: SenseNet buys N5 Sensors' wildfire unit, Metsä orders Valmet's 3D Fiber line, a model predicts heat-treated wood outcomes

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

Muon Space banks $250M for FireSat, Sweden's electric timber trucks now a fleet | #060

Aug 25, 2026

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Muon Space banks $250M for FireSat, Sweden's electric timber trucks now a fleet | #060

Also: SLU counts moose with thermal drones, Ponsse harvester laser guidance adds 1 to 3 percent, backpack lidar works leaf-off only

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

FGI lidar IDs nine tree species, Mai Intelligence plans bark beetle CubeSat | #058

Aug 11, 2026

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FGI lidar IDs nine tree species, Mai Intelligence plans bark beetle CubeSat | #058

Also: Vigo IDs seven species from ground lidar, Fraunhofer wires Bavarian forest with mioty sensors, WoodComp opens a free mill database

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Skogforsk digital timber passport, Allianz wildfire detection net over Spain | #057

Aug 4, 2026

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Skogforsk digital timber passport, Allianz wildfire detection net over Spain | #057

Also: SLU optimiser doubts inventory data, phones beat headsets in forestry AR, rebuilt vegetation index doubles biomass signal

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Metsä runs wood procurement on Qutwo AI, SCA wires Tunadal fans with sensors | #054

Jul 14, 2026

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Metsä runs wood procurement on Qutwo AI, SCA wires Tunadal fans with sensors | #054

Also: Lund maps Götaland tree species from satellite, Mila's BIRCH-Trees reads tree height and species from drone photos

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

OroraTech satellites go live in Greece, Bezos Earth Fund gives FireSat $26M | #053

Jul 7, 2026

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OroraTech satellites go live in Greece, Bezos Earth Fund gives FireSat $26M | #053

Also: Skogforsk measures stem sweep from the harvester, Ecobase registers with Verra and builds Forestry OS for Swedish foresters

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

Jul 2, 2026

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Nordic Forestry Automation raises SEK 48M for harvester automation, deep dive | #052

Sponsored deep dive: what the round funds, Generation 2 semi-automation for thinning harvesters, and the stand data NFA collects

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

NFA closes SEK 48M harvester round, Arboreal IDs logs from end-grain photos | #051

Jun 30, 2026

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NFA closes SEK 48M harvester round, Arboreal IDs logs from end-grain photos | #051

Also: Norway puts 90M kroner into FAO's SEPAL satellite platform, Canada commits $130M across 56 forest-sector projects

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

Nordluft wins BVLOS forest drone permit, Kanop puts forest carbon data in Claude | #050

Jun 23, 2026

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Nordluft wins BVLOS forest drone permit, Kanop puts forest carbon data in Claude | #050

Also: Umeå teaches a forwarder crane multi-log grabs, ForestBioFacts adds an AI assistant, pine bark cleans wastewater

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

Södra scales Viking Analytics AI to 3 mills, SweTree robot picks tree embryos | #049

Jun 16, 2026

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Södra scales Viking Analytics AI to 3 mills, SweTree robot picks tree embryos | #049

Also: Logscom marks logs in the harvester for traceability, New Dawn Bio grows wood in bioreactors, Treebula hires CXO and CTO

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Sweden's third national lidar scan begins, New Zealand maps forests by species | #048

Jun 9, 2026

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Sweden's third national lidar scan begins, New Zealand maps forests by species | #048

Also: Skogshubben files felling notifications direct to Skogsstyrelsen, Idemitsu and Morisora make jet fuel from Japanese wood

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

AirForestry drone thinning gets SEK 20M pilots, NIBIO AI rates forest roads | #047

Jun 2, 2026

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AirForestry drone thinning gets SEK 20M pilots, NIBIO AI rates forest roads | #047

Also: Arboair's first UK drone forest survey at the Duchy of Cornwall, and NUS uses AI bioacoustics to map rainforest biodiversity

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

AirForestry drone fells first live tree, SLU lidar maps 117 million trees | #046

May 26, 2026

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AirForestry drone fells first live tree, SLU lidar maps 117 million trees | #046

Also: SCA's AI cassette check at Bogrundet nursery, Ponsse's Buffalo Planter, and SkogsAI signs its first customer

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

Kodiak driverless log trucks for West Fraser, AI reads tree age from lidar | #045

May 19, 2026

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Kodiak driverless log trucks for West Fraser, AI reads tree age from lidar | #045

Also: Sleipner Robotics lines up unmanned forest and mine pilots, and western US utilities scale Pano AI wildfire cameras

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

AirForestry leads SEK 48M drone consortium, SLU detects pesticides by sound | #043

May 5, 2026

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AirForestry leads SEK 48M drone consortium, SLU detects pesticides by sound | #043

Also: Metsä and Stora Enso frame AI as baseline infrastructure, Biodiv raises SEK 2.75M, and Mongabay's ten forces reshaping forests

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

Weyerhaeuser adopts NFA harvester AI, Södra closes venture arm Södra Ädla | #042

Apr 28, 2026

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Weyerhaeuser adopts NFA harvester AI, Södra closes venture arm Södra Ädla | #042

Also: Dryad hangs 1,100 wildfire sensors in Colorado, 3Dtrees.earth opens a forest lidar pipeline, Billerud's electric timber truck

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

Global Forester goes live in Claude, Finnos lets AI agents plan the sawmill | #071

Terra Labs adds an AI forest agent, Valmet buys Tieto's mill software | #070

Kodama raises $7M for remote-run skidders, Södra seeks fixes for browsing damage | #069

Finland tests apps in its forest inventory, Skogforsk simulates drone thinning | #068

Finnish AI drones spray moose repellent on seedlings, Hyne Timber adds X-ray log scanning | #067

Sweden maps forest age and site index, Skogforsk bucking tool on harvester data | #066

AI maps Swedish canopy height from open data, Palantir CEO buys Härjedalen forest | #065

Metsä prices forest work with AI, Finland audits subsidies from orbit | #064

Sveaskog tests load-measuring crane, Södra forest plans update from satellite | #063

Romania tracks timber lorries by permit, Skogforsk's Autoplant planting machine | #062

Muon Space banks $250M for FireSat, Sweden's electric timber trucks now a fleet | #060

FGI lidar IDs nine tree species, Mai Intelligence plans bark beetle CubeSat | #058

Skogforsk digital timber passport, Allianz wildfire detection net over Spain | #057

Metsä runs wood procurement on Qutwo AI, SCA wires Tunadal fans with sensors | #054

OroraTech satellites go live in Greece, Bezos Earth Fund gives FireSat $26M | #053

Nordic Forestry Automation raises SEK 48M for harvester automation, deep dive | #052

NFA closes SEK 48M harvester round, Arboreal IDs logs from end-grain photos | #051

Nordluft wins BVLOS forest drone permit, Kanop puts forest carbon data in Claude | #050

Södra scales Viking Analytics AI to 3 mills, SweTree robot picks tree embryos | #049

Sweden's third national lidar scan begins, New Zealand maps forests by species | #048

AirForestry drone thinning gets SEK 20M pilots, NIBIO AI rates forest roads | #047

AirForestry drone fells first live tree, SLU lidar maps 117 million trees | #046

Kodiak driverless log trucks for West Fraser, AI reads tree age from lidar | #045

AirForestry leads SEK 48M drone consortium, SLU detects pesticides by sound | #043

Weyerhaeuser adopts NFA harvester AI, Södra closes venture arm Södra Ädla | #042

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