Metla produces and administrates information resources
relating to forestry and the status of the forest ecosystem. Metla has
carried out the National Forest Inventory (NFI) calculation since 1921.
During the inventory process wide-ranging data is collected on the amount
and growth of tree stands, conditions of forests and biological diversity.
Up-to-date information on sufficiency of timber reserves, forest growth
and carbon reservoirs is needed to address items such as forest management,
planning of the use of forest resources, monitoring of sustainable forestry,
and international forest policy.
Metla creates national estimates on cutting potential and makes regional
forest calculations based on the NFI materials as ordered by customers.
The MELA software, created by Metla specifically for such calculations,
is a commonly used planning tool in forestry. Metla also prepares most
of the official forest statistics in Finland and participates in pan-European
monitoring of the forest health status. The monitoring is performed annually
on 6000 observation plots located in different parts of Europe. The Metinfo
forest information services on the Metla website provide up-to-date information
on forests, forest conditions and reserves, and seedling production.
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10th national forest inventory |
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Integrated forestry planning
method based on simulation and optimisation |
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Preconditions and opportunities for scots pine harvested
in thinnings |
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Additional markets for
wood products in Germany |
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Growth, yield and stand dynamics on drained
peatlands |
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Timber production possibilities on Finnish peatlands |
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The management of the permanent field experiment on
drained peatlands |
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Forest inventories of greenhouse gases and the carbon
sink |
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The forest carbon sink and economic costs of implementation
of the Kyoto protocol |
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A model of the effects of forestry on water courses |
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Sustainable development
of thse Pechora region in a changing environment |
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Geospatial modelling of the effect of climate change
on vegetation |
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Forest organisations are testing the MOTTI software |
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Customer-oriented logistics
and e-business of chopped firewood |
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Short term variation of tree growth |
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Methods for monitoring forest regeneration
results |
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Models, planning and decision
supprt in accomodating different forms of forest use |
