Use of individual tree and product level data to improve operational forestry

RF Keefe, EG Zimbelman, G Picchi - Current Forestry Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Individual tree detection (ITD) methods and technologies for
tracking individual forest products through a smart operational supply chain from stump to …

Recent Applications of Smart Technologies for Monitoring the Sustainability of Forest Operations

R Venanzi, F Latterini, V Civitarese, R Picchio - Forests, 2023 - mdpi.com
Precision forestry is a useful technique to help forest stakeholders with proper sustainable
forest management. Modern sensors and technologies, with special reference to the …

Positioning methods and the use of location and activity data in forests

RF Keefe, AM Wempe, RM Becker, EG Zimbelman… - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
In this paper, we provide an overview of positioning systems for moving resources in forest
and fire management and review the related literature. Emphasis is placed on the accuracy …

Physiological workload evaluation by means of heart rate monitoring during motor-manual clearcutting operations

Z Arman, M Nikooy, PA Tsioras, M Heidari… - … Journal of Forest …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Forest workers encounter many health-related problems due to their harsh working
conditions. This study focused on the evaluation of the physical workload of tree fellers …

Development and validation of smartwatch-based activity recognition models for rigging crew workers on cable logging operations

EG Zimbelman, RF Keefe - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Analysis of high-resolution inertial sensor and global navigation satellite system (GNSS)
data collected by mobile and wearable devices is a relatively new methodology in forestry …

Classifying operational events in cable yarding by a machine learning application to GNSS-collected data: A case study on gravity-assisted downhill yarding

SA Borz, M Cheta, M Birda, AR Proto - Bulletin of the Transilvania …, 2022 - webbut.unitbv.ro
Cable yarding remains an important option in steep terrain timber harvesting, a reason for
which new or improved operational efficiency models are required to support science and …

Testing the capability of low-cost tools and artificial intelligence techniques to automatically detect operations done by a small-sized manually driven bandsaw

M Cheţa, MV Marcu, E Iordache, SA Borz - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
Research Highlights: A low-cost experimental system was developed to enable the
production monitoring of small-scale wood processing facilities by the means of sensor …

A novel smartphone-based activity recognition modeling method for tracked equipment in forest operations

RM Becker, RF Keefe - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Activity recognition modelling using smartphone Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) is an
underutilized resource defining and assessing work efficiency for a wide range of natural …

Integrating offline object tracking, signal processing, and artificial intelligence to classify relevant events in sawmilling operations

S Alexandru Borz, M Păun - Forests, 2020 - mdpi.com
Sawmilling operations are typically one of the most important cells of the wood supply chain
as they take the log assortments as inputs to which they add value by processing lumber …

Anti-motion interference wearable device for monitoring blood oxygen saturation based on sliding window algorithm

B Jiao - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wearable multi-physiological parameter monitoring technology can realize non-intrusive,
non-invasive daily health monitoring of the human body. It has the characteristics of …