Ala-Ilomäki, Jari

D.Sc. (Agr. & For.) , Docent, Researcher

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Expertise

• vehicle mobility
• terrain traffic ability

Research Projects

Current

• Coordination of PUU-programme
  
• Enhancing timber harvesting on sensitive sites
  
• New Computational Methods for effective utilization of public data
  
• New technologies for terrain trafficability prediction and logging planning
  
• Wood production potential, forest management and harvesting in changing environment
  

Former

• Less is more
  
• Mobility of forest machinery
  
• New solutions for treatment and harvesting of peatland forest
  
• Possibilities of equipment and assessories in use of forest machinery
  
• Potential and feasibility of intensive wood and biomass production (EffFibre WP2)
  
• Predicting the level and cost of soil and tree damage in logging
  
• Sensor system for semi-automatic steering of forest machines and modelling of the stand
  
• Technology and logistics of industrial and energy wood in Finland and in the EU.
  
• Timber quality in single-grip harvester logging
  
• Trafficability of Forested Peatland
  
• Wood harvesting technology and wood procurement in Finland and in the EU
  

Contacts

Keywords: harvesting machines, mobility, timber extraction