This document provides the agenda for the "Harnessing Digitalization, Open and Big Data for the Benefit of Forestry" stakeholder event hosted by DataBio in Helsinki, Finland on October 2nd, 2019, including details on speakers, topics, and a schedule of presentations on applications of digital tools and data in forestry. Meeting venue information and directions to Pääposti in Helsinki city center are also included.
1. This document is part of a project that has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 732064. It is the property of the DataBio consortium and shall not be distributed or
reproduced without the formal approval of the DataBio Management Committee.
Project Acronym: DataBio
Grant Agreement number: 732064 (H2020-ICT-2016-1 – Innovation Action)
Project Full Title: Data-Driven Bioeconomy
Project Coordinator: INTRASOFT International
MEETING AGENDA
DataBio Helsinki Stakeholder Event: “Harnessing
Digitalization, Open and Big Data for the Benefit of
Forestry”
Date(s)
2nd of October 2019
Place Pääposti, Mannerheiminaukio 1B, 00100 Helsinki
Status - version, date v1.0 4.7.2019
Dissemination level Public
2. Dissemination level: Public
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Table of Contents
1 Meeting venue information 3
1.1 Directions to the venue 3
2 Agenda for the 2nd of October 4
3. Dissemination level: Public
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1 Meeting venue information
1.1 Directions to the venue
From the airport (Helsinki, HEL)
You can conveniently travel to the city centre of Helsinki with a train connection from Helsinki
Airport. The I train travels a route: Helsinki – Tikkurila – Airport – Myyrmäki – Helsinki, while
the P train travels the opposite direction: Helsinki – Myyrmäki – Airport – Tikkurila Helsinki.
Both of the trains run on the Ring Rail Line between Helsinki city centre and the airport. The
travel time is about 30 minutes. The timetables, routes and ticket prices can be found on the
HSL website: https://www.hsl.fi/en.
Please notice that you need a regional ticket for travelling between the Airport and Helsinki
city centre. More information is available at Finavia website:
https://www.finavia.fi/en/airports/helsinki-airport/access/trains.
If you are using other means of transport, the location on the map is at address
Mannerheiminaukio 1B, 00100 Helsinki, Finland and on google map
https://goo.gl/maps/UW4gUrCMt6SKmmo98.
The entrance to Pääposti Auditorio meeting room is located at C stair entrance and this can
be accessed via the Postikuja street.
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2 Agenda for the 2nd of October
Time Topic Speaker / Host Place / Meeting room
8:30 Registering and morning coffee at Pääposti Helsinki Pääposti/ Auditorio
9:00 Welcome and event opening Seppo Huurinainen/
Wuudis Solutions Oy
Pääposti/ Auditorio
9:05 DataBio showcase: Business impact of Laatumetsa and
Wuudis Service and APIs for work quality control,
forest damage and field monitoring needs
Seppo Huurinainen and
Sudip Kumar Pal / Wuudis
Solutions Oy
Pääposti/ Auditorio
9:40 DataBio showcase: Metsään.fi-services and
crowdsourcing solutions
Virpi Stenman / Finnish
Forest Centre
Pääposti/ Auditorio
10:10 DataBio showcase: Drone-based Tree-wise monitoring
in Hippala foresty, Mikkeli, Finland , cooperation in
forestry education development with XAMK
Seppo Huurinainen /
Wuudis Solutions OY,
Pertti Kilpeläinen / XAMK
Pääposti/ Auditorio
10:40 DataBio showcase: Drone-based Boron deficiency
monitoring in spruce stands
Roope Näsi / MML Pääposti/ Auditorio
11.00 Lunch Restaurant Pääposti
12:00 DataBio showcase: Forest parameter estimation based
on Sentinel satellites and local reference data. Example
from Galicia Spain and Central Finland
Jukka Miettinen / VTT Pääposti/ Auditorio
12:30 DataBio showcase: VHR satellite images in tree-wise
forest inventory
Stephanie Bonnet /
SPACEBEL, Belgium
Pääposti/ Auditorio
12:50 DataBio showcase: Wuudis platform and mobile
solution implementation in Galician pilot. Summary of
Wuudis offerings to forest sector.
Seppo Huurinainen and
Sudip Kumar Pal / Wuudis
Solutions Oy
Pääposti/ Auditorio
13:20 DataBio testimonial: Needs of Forest digitalization
tools in Spain
Jesus Martinez / fMC-
Galicia, Spain
Pääposti/ Auditorio
13.40 DataBio testimonial: Challenges of digitalization of
professional forest management – own experiences
David Garcia Castillo /
Agresta, Spain
Pääposti/ Auditorio
14:00 Coffee Break
14:30 DataBio testimonial: Spanish community-owned
forests facing with digitalisation.
Ovidio Queiruga
González/ President of
Baroña forest
community, Galicia, Spain
Pääposti/ Auditorio
15:00 DataBio testimonial: Sentinel-2 forest monitoring for
bark beetle damage identification and control in spruce
dominated forests in The Czech Republic
Vaclav Tomasek / The
Ministry of Agriculture of
the Czech Republic
Pääposti/ Auditorio
15:15 DataBio testimonial: Applying mobile solutions for
field work and field work quality control
Harri Välimäki / Pohjois-
Karjala FMA
Pääposti/ Auditorio
15.25-
15:30
Event closing Virpi Stenman / Finnish
Forest Centre
Pääposti/ Auditorio