Kilpeläinen, Harri

M.Sc. (Agr. & For.), Researcher

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Expertise

• wood and timber quality
• systems and programmes for data analysis
• forest planning
• prediction of characteristics of marked timber stands
• bucking and its simulation

Research Projects

Current

• Effect of forest management on wood properties
  
• Novel measurement and grading applications and customer solutions for determining quantity and quality of timber
  
• Raw material potentials, properties, suitability and competitiveness of Scots pine and Norway spruce in wood product industries
  

Former

• Assessing quantity, quality and value of wood raw-material for timber trade and procurement
  
• Co-ordination and extension of the research programme "Potentials for the utilisation of roundwood and wood raw materials in relation to the wood product markets"
  
• Description of commercial roundwood and its distribution in analysing future cutting possibilities
  
• Developing the Pinus Sylvestris L Resource
  
• Development of Forest Sector in Northwest Russia and its impact in Finland
  
• Development of procurement and saw milling of Scots pine from thinnings
  
• Diversifying hardwood utilisation
  
• Energy wood measurement for quantity and quality
  
• Factors for the wood and timber quality of Scots pine
  
• Forest owners' decision situations and pluralistic decision support
  
• Forestry modelling and analyses
  
• Geographical information systems and multi-objective decision support methods for multiple use forestry
  
• Growing and procurement of high-value timber in Central Finland
  
• Heuristic optimization methods in forest planning
  
• Models, planning and decision support for multi-functional forestry
  
• New wood product solutions and their competitiveness
  
• Protection of forest biodiversity in multi-objective forest planning
  
• Quality and value of timber from drained peatlands for end-use oriented forest industries
  
• Quality, measurement and procurement of wood raw materials in specializing timber utilization
  
• Russia in flux - impacts of changes in forest and economic policy and business preconditions in Russia and Finland
  
• The production potential of the Finnish forests in 1996 - 2025
  
• Value formation of timber stands when targeting for alternative end-products in timber harvesting
  

Contacts

Keywords: bucking, forest planning, timber quality, wood quality