The Virtual Forest: Robotics And Simulation Technology As The Basis For New Approaches To The Biological And The Technical Production In The Forest
J. Rossmann, M. Schluse, Christian Schlette
In order to support competitiveness on the worldwide market - but also to overcome efficiency
problems related to the forest owner structure in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany - the
"Virtual Forest" is being developed as an intelligent planning and decision support tool for forest growth
as well as for wood mobilization. In practice, the heart of the Virtual Forest consists of a database of
approx. 240 million single trees in NRW, its major wood resource. In order to identify the trees, latest
aerial survey and satellite technology is used and combined with virtual reality and robotics know how in
order to efficiently gather and visualize the data. Thus, the Virtual Forest will serve as a reliable and
very up-to-date base and framework for new efficient forest planning, wood mobilization and machine
logistics methods. Full Text
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