Timber logistics

Timber haulage, log measurement, supply chain and traceability: digital twins, permits, scanners and wood flow optimisation.

Satellite monitoring

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

Sep 22, 2026

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2 min read

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

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

Sep 8, 2026

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2 min read

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

Timber logistics

ForestX Optinex sawmill planner opens to AI agents, balloon reads wildfire risk | #061

Sep 1, 2026

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2 min read

ForestX Optinex sawmill planner opens to AI agents, balloon reads wildfire risk | #061

Also: AI maps Christmas tree plantations, terrain-aware lidar improves tree volume, Foster + Partners joins a timber robot swarm

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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2 min read

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

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

Aug 4, 2026

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2 min read

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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1 min read

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

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

Jun 30, 2026

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2 min read

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

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

Jun 16, 2026

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3 min read

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

Nordic forestry

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

May 19, 2026

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3 min read

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

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

Apr 28, 2026

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3 min read

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

Satellite monitoring

Södra AI classifies pulpwood from GPV cameras, ICEYE SAR tracks deforestation | #041

Apr 21, 2026

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2 min read

Södra AI classifies pulpwood from GPV cameras, ICEYE SAR tracks deforestation | #041

Also: DroneWild WildTAK thermal drones for Forestry and Land Scotland, Skogforsk extends postdocs.ai, and free FORVAL-XL

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

Mar 17, 2026

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5 min read

Kopparfors storm salvage by drone and ML, Treemetrics launches Crann AI | #036

Also: LumberScan and Södra digitise log yard inventory, smart forestry market to double by 2032, Komatsu MaxiXT on TimberPro

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Feb 17, 2026

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4 min read

UPM scales Aarnibot AI assistant, Scania pilots electric timber truck with SCA | #032

Also: ForestX acquires LogStack, New Zealand streams live harvester data, GAR and Arkadiah's AI carbon MRV in Indonesia

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Global Nature Watch AI forest monitoring, deep learning tracks logs to mill | #030

Feb 3, 2026

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4 min read

Global Nature Watch AI forest monitoring, deep learning tracks logs to mill | #030

Also: Silvador publishes carbon verification data, fast-growing species challenge AI models, lidar drones map the Maya Forest

Axel Wretemark

Timber logistics

Laser scanning gives trees a fingerprint, AutoForst links harvester to sawmill | #028

Jan 20, 2026

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4 min read

Laser scanning gives trees a fingerprint, AutoForst links harvester to sawmill | #028

Also: AI precision forestry for Finnish small owners, biomass plant reborn as AI data centre, Manulife and veritree bioacoustics

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Biometria VIOL 3 timber data engine, SACCESS satellite mosaics for Sweden | #023

Dec 23, 2025

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3 min read

Biometria VIOL 3 timber data engine, SACCESS satellite mosaics for Sweden | #023

Also: SLU opens a GitHub library of 70 years of Swedish and Norwegian forest growth formulas

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

IBM quantum AI for Canada's forest supply chain, Stanford AI maps carbon | #020

Dec 2, 2025

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3 min read

IBM quantum AI for Canada's forest supply chain, Stanford AI maps carbon | #020

Also: Arboair on deterministic forestry, Arboreal adds RTK tree coordinates via Emlid Reach RX, Future of Forestry Europe report

Axel Wretemark

Nordic forestry

FSC Motion 30 traceability, Luleå virtual data for autonomous harvesters | #019

Nov 25, 2025

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3 min read

FSC Motion 30 traceability, Luleå virtual data for autonomous harvesters | #019

Also: Finnish forest machines report work automatically, SingleTree tree-level harvest planning, Live Canopy Digital Tree framework

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Guyana pilots digital timber tracking, ESA-backed FBET verifies forest carbon | #016

Nov 4, 2025

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3 min read

Guyana pilots digital timber tracking, ESA-backed FBET verifies forest carbon | #016

Also: Semtech and Skylo satellite IoT switching, AI bird sound recognition, AI harvest activity prediction

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Södra launches Terra Labs planner app, OTMETKA blockchain log traceability | #013

Oct 21, 2025

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4 min read

Södra launches Terra Labs planner app, OTMETKA blockchain log traceability | #013

Also: AI listens for spotted owls in Oregon, AI predicts forest invasive species, machine learning maps US ghost forests

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Canfor puts IoT on 500 forest machines, VTT builds global forest digital twin | #003

Aug 26, 2025

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4 min read

Canfor puts IoT on 500 forest machines, VTT builds global forest digital twin | #003

Also: Olam Agri digitises harvesting in Congo, Kodama Systems robotic thinning for wildfire risk, blockchain tracks mass timber

Axel Wretemark

Satellite monitoring

Meta releases AI global canopy map, Canada tests autonomous logging trucks | #002

Aug 19, 2025

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3 min read

Meta releases AI global canopy map, Canada tests autonomous logging trucks | #002

Also: Japan's IoT Smart Forests, Spain's ChainWood blockchain timber traceability, Flash Forest drones replant wildfire sites

Axel Wretemark

Timber logistics

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

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

ForestX Optinex sawmill planner opens to AI agents, balloon reads wildfire risk | #061

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

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

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

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

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

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

Södra AI classifies pulpwood from GPV cameras, ICEYE SAR tracks deforestation | #041

Kopparfors storm salvage by drone and ML, Treemetrics launches Crann AI | #036

UPM scales Aarnibot AI assistant, Scania pilots electric timber truck with SCA | #032

Global Nature Watch AI forest monitoring, deep learning tracks logs to mill | #030

Laser scanning gives trees a fingerprint, AutoForst links harvester to sawmill | #028

Biometria VIOL 3 timber data engine, SACCESS satellite mosaics for Sweden | #023

IBM quantum AI for Canada's forest supply chain, Stanford AI maps carbon | #020

FSC Motion 30 traceability, Luleå virtual data for autonomous harvesters | #019

Guyana pilots digital timber tracking, ESA-backed FBET verifies forest carbon | #016

Södra launches Terra Labs planner app, OTMETKA blockchain log traceability | #013

Canfor puts IoT on 500 forest machines, VTT builds global forest digital twin | #003

Meta releases AI global canopy map, Canada tests autonomous logging trucks | #002

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