The project

Main goal

The core objective of Sintetic is to set up and demonstrate a traceability system for trees, logs and boards based on ICT. The solution must be reliable, highly precise, and cost-effective. To achieve these expectations, it will be based on a set of hardware and applications designed to generate a unique ID physically attached to each item and digitally transmitted to a central Geodatabase. The latter will relate each ID to the data produced along the supply chain, with the unprecedented capacity to span from the forest inventory to the final sawnwood products. It will allow to relate yield and quality output of any process in the value chain with all the previous steps, including historical climatic data, silvicultural treatments, and forest stand descriptors.
Log dump with several piles of logs and a forest in the background
Specific goals
  1. To achieve a higher value recovery of timber assortments from the existing forest resources
  2. To increase the overall efficiency of the timber supply chain
  3. To provide a greater competitive advantage of the EU forest industry
  4. To increase of the EU forested area under active management
  5. To increase both the timber value, the resilience and the ecosystem services provided
  6. To tackle illegal logging and the related timber trade
  7. To facilitate a homogeneous and widespread uptake of the digital technologies in the forestry sector

Expected results

RESULT

Entire value chain traceability system for forest products (mechanical and manual)

APPLICATION

The traceability system, based on physical marking of roundwood (single logs) and deployed with a simplified data platform allows stock management, product invoicing and enables a highly precise certification of forest products, including georeferencing of origin.

RESULT

Identification and traceability system for sawn wood

APPLICATION

This system when deployed within the primary processing industry allows:

  • Accurate traceability of resources along all log transformation steps
  • Link the final product (such as long-lasting structural components) to the unique tree standing in the forest

RESULT

On-board LiDAR scanning for value recovery optimization and forest inventory

APPLICATION

The elaboration LiDAR data can provide two independent services:

  • Real-time optimization of value recovery during tree harvesting
  • Elaborate a detailed post-harvest forest inventory

RESULT

Smartphone APP for forest inventory and timber measure

APPLICATION

It can be deployed in two different stages of the forest value chain:

  • Inventory of forests for value assessment
  • Measure of produced timber during manual harvesting

RESULT

Illegal logging satellite detection

APPLICATION

Early warning solution for the detection of forest cover changes based on free Copernicus data. Applicable to control illegal logging but also to monitor natural hazards (e.g. wildfire or gales )

RESULT

Forest ownership aggregation platform

APPLICATION

Integrated platform inside the SINTETIC one to enhance and facilitate fragmented forests inventories, planning and management