- Forestry
- Land
- Forests, Environment & Climate
- Atmosphere & Climate
Metsäteho Oy is a limited company owned by the leading forest industry organisations and companies of Finland and is specialised in research and development (R&D) work and projects.
Metsäteho supports the development of its shareholders’ wood procurement and wood production operations and improves the operating preconditions for wood supply.
With this background, Metsäteho provides for Harvester Seasons contacts to leading forest companies and customers in Finland and Europe.
Harvester Seasons, developed by the Finnish Meteorological Institute, is a web application supporting the Finnish forestry sector by offering high-resolution soil trafficability, seasonal forecast, forest fire index and carbon emission information system. Harvester Seasons has been co-designed with the stakeholders from the Finnish forestry sector and tailored especially to their needs.
The trafficability service combines ALS Airborne Laser Scanning data by Finnish Forest Centre with FMI’s weather forecast as well as seasonal forecast and climatological conditions from Copernicus. The service provides information on forest fire risks. Giving guidelines to the forestry sector about the impacts of deforestation, clear-cutting and optimized forest management with respect to the forest’s carbon cycle helps additionally for sustainable operation planning.
The data presented in the webservice is used for hydropower production optimization and assessment of modelling and monitoring uncertainties and as such has been seen as useful auxiliary information. Since FMI is not at this stage legally able to provide direct guidance on operational activities, the pilot is considered as an auxiliary service for new technologies and methods for forecast production and for combining relevant data from multiple sources into a single web service. Combining and displaying data from different sources, is seen as very significant in assessing forecasting uncertainties. Also, new promising methods for streamflow forecasting such as the operational usage of machine learning techniques has been added to the service during 2021.
Decreasing the vulnerability of energy companies to variations in meteorological and hydrological conditions through improved seasonal forecast products is the main expected impact of the project.
- End-user tailored products on hydrological conditions will be disseminated to the key end user; Kemijoki Oy.
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Learn more about the service: https://hops.fmi.fi/
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