Lehtonen, Mika

Senior Systems Analyst

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Expertise

• computer science
• programming: user interfaces and graphics

Research Projects

Current

• Effects of alternative stand management on wood production and profitability
  
• Knowledge based data services -improving the life cycle and accessibility of environmental data provided for public interest
  
• Novel cross-border solutions for intensification of forestry and increasing energy wood use
  
• Prediction of stand dynamics and development of MOTTI software
  

Former

• Coordination of research program "Alternatives of silvicultural practices in forest management and their effects on forest production"
  
• Decision support system for stand management
  
• Development of Forest Sector in Northwest Russia and its impact in Finland
  
• Development of peatland harvesting
  
• Development of the normative basis of sustainable forest management at regional level
  
• Growing and procurement of high-value timber in Central Finland
  
• Long-term monitoring of forest ecosystems
  
• Management alternatives for biodiversity conservation and their effects on stand-level profitability
  
• Management and harvesting of Norway spruce stands in changing climate
  
• NOVELTREE- Novel Tree Breeding Strategies
  
• Natural forests: structure, dynamics and biodiversity as compared with managed forests
  
• New value chains of forest industry based on domestic raw material
  
• Potential and feasibility of intensive wood and biomass production (EffFibre WP2)
  
• Prediction and simulation of stand dynamics
  
• Prediction of stand development
  
• Research and development plan for international forestry, in particular for countries with economies in transition
  
• Technology, organising and logistics of plantation forestry
  
• The effect of harvesting on nutrient export from drained peatland forests in Finland and Ireland
  
• Usability of real-time forest inventory information for guidance of forest owners and planning of forest operations
  

Contacts

Keywords: decission support tools