Rethinking Forest Management Planning with Stora Enso

Forest owners need to plan for the long term to practice sustainable forestry. The forest management plan is at the core of responsible forestry, as today’s decisions will have a lasting impact. Today’s forest owners have more and more daytime jobs outside forestry and agriculture, hence having less understanding of how their woods are developing. However, there is an ever greater interest in understanding how different ways of managing forests help satisfy economic sustainability and social goals. Stora Enso wants to provide state-of-the-art forest management services and become the leading partner for the new generation of forest owners.

Today, forest management planning and data collection are most often done manually. We have access to a lot of data together with Forest Sweden and open source, but no tools to put it together and visualize it in a fast and appealing way. Forest management plans are updated annually, but the data becomes more inaccurate yearly.

We are looking for software solutions that can process big data, visualize it appropriately, and do so continuously with real-time data. The answer should be designed for future changes, interoperable through layering and API exposure, secure, and as data non-redundant as possible.

We seek a partner to help us co-develop and innovate solutions to manage our forestry data. We want to work together and share our industry knowledge to provide you with valuable information, enabling your company to further opportunities within the industry. With the selected partner, we would start the proof-of-concept with a pre-study to find out:

• How to assemble and use our different data sources (in-house available data and publicly available data)
• How that data can be instantly visualized in a forest management plan, e.g., a web page or app
• How it stays up to date