The main impetus for the global efforts toward the current digital transformation in almost all
areas of our daily lives is due to the great successes of artificial intelligence (AI), and in …

Abstract Purpose of the Review The aim of the review was to better understand the impacts
of the dominant harvesting systems in Europe, namely harvester-forwarder (HFW), chainsaw …

Efficient forest operations are required for the provision of biodiversity and numerous
ecosystem services, such as wood production, carbon sequestration, protection against …

Climate change severely affects mountain forests and their ecosystem services, eg, by
altering disturbance regimes. Increasing timber harvest (INC) via a close-to-nature forestry …

This article introduces a new basis for optimising cable corridor layouts in timber extraction
on steep terrain by using a digital twin of a forest. Traditional approaches for generating …

Sustainable forest management plays a key role for forest biodiversity and the provisioning
of ecosystem services (BES), including the important service of carbon sequestration for …

Current cable-road layouts for timber harvesting in steep terrain are often based on either
manual planning or automated layouts generated from low-resolution GIS data, limiting …

Efficient forest management, and wood production in particular, requires a forest road
network of appropriate density and bearing capacity. The road network affects the choice of …

The efficiency of forest logging operations can be strongly affected by the layout of the
harvesting pattern, which is usually based on silvicultural constraints and technical …

Forest soils can be sensitive to traffic for various reasons, such as a high water table and the
absence of sturdy ground, both of which can lead to fragile ground conditions under wet …