Department of Forest Resource Management

The project’s aim is to strengthen cooperation between Slovakia and the Nordic countries, focusing on new remote sensing techniques to combat insect damage in forests.

The purpose of the project is to provide a decision-making basis for practical forest management at both European and regional levels.

A new EU-funded project aims to provide a better understanding of the EU’s greenhouse gas budget through modeling of the terrestrial carbon cycle, to support policy decisions on land use and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

WindyForests explores how wind power, forestry and local interests can coexist in forest landscapes. Through stakeholder collaboration and advanced modeling, the project supports more sustainable decisions for wind power development.

In E-tools, researchers collaborate with forest owners and managers to improve continuous cover forestry growth models, evaluate management strategies, and make the results accessible through a user-friendly web service.

We conduct research and teaching in remote sensing of forests and other vegetation, as well as environmental analysis with a focus on national maps. The work is primarily based on distance-measuring laser, electro-optical sensors, including digital cameras, and imaging radar.

Our future depends on how wisely we use the Earth’s resources. The way we manage the world’s forests will affect future generations. In the long term, this is an existential issue for humanity. Therefore, research and education in forestry are of great importance.

SLU researcher Carl Vigren has digitized and compiled nearly all forestry formulas used in Sweden and Norway over the past 70 years.

SLU Forest Damage Centre has expanded its capabilities with Sweden’s first co-aligned VNIR–SWIR–LiDAR hyperspectral drone system for advanced forest stress detection.

For the first time, researchers have detected spruce bark beetle infestations from the air at a very early stage, when the infestation has only affected one side of the tree trunk. The infestations are revealed by light reflections from the needles.

In October, the European Parliament voted against the proposal for a new EU Forest Monitoring Law. However, work to harmonise forest data across Europe continues – and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) plays an important role in that process.

A total of 13 new PhD projects have been granted within the WIFORCE Research School at SLU’s Faculty of Forest Sciences.