In collaboration with the AI company Terra Labs, Södra is now launching an initiative to ensure that members have continuous access to regularly updated insights about their forests. Broad knowledge of forest owners’ needs is being combined with AI, automated data, and new working methods to provide members with the best possible decision-making support regarding their forest.
“We are now on the brink of a technological leap that will give us access to automated forestry data in a new way. Empowering our members in their forest ownership and decision-making is a key part of our mission, and we aim to create even better decision support for forest owners,” says Peter Karlsson, Head of Södra Skog.
There is significant potential to streamline work through automated forestry data, which, among other benefits, reduces the need for field measurements. To achieve this, Södra is developing its own Planner App, used on a tablet in conjunction with new remote sensing data. Södra has now entered into a long-term partnership with Terra Labs to ensure stable access to highly accurate and frequently updated data. The joint development work to adapt and train the AI model has been ongoing for several months.
The app for forest planners will be launched this autumn, and in parallel, the forest management plan is being developed as a product. The aim is to make more information available via the member portal Min skogsgård, thereby transforming the forest management plan into a more dynamic decision-making tool where members have greater opportunities to actively engage with their plans.
Terra Labs is a new AI-based platform that inventories and analyses forests in real time using satellite data.
Södra is the largest forest-owner association in Sweden, with more than 50,000 family forest owners as members. Together, the members of Södra own a world-leading industrial operation that processes forest raw material into renewable products such as pulp, timber, building systems, energy and biochemicals.
