Roope Ruotsalainen

Metsähallitus Forestry Ltd.

In forest management planning, errors in predicted stand attributes might lead to sub-optimal decisions resulting in decreased net present value. Forest inventory data will have a higher value if the amount of sub-optimal decisions can be decreased. Therefore, the value of information can be measured through the decrease in inoptimality losses, whi...

Forestry can help to mitigate climate change by storing carbon in trees, forest soils and wood products. Forest owners can be subsidized if forestry removes carbon from the atmosphere and taxed if forestry produces emissions. Errors in forest inventory data can lead to losses in net present value (NPV) if management prescriptions are selected based...

• Key message Errors in forest stand attributes can lead to sub-optimal management prescriptions concerning the set management objectives. When the objective is net present value, errors in mean diameter result in greater losses than similar errors in basal area, and underestimation greater losses than overestimation. • Context Errors in forest in...

Wind damage and the bark beetle outbreaks associated with it are major threats to non-declining, long-term wood production in boreal forests. We studied whether the risk of wind damage in a forested landscape could be decreased by using stand neighbourhood information in conjunction with terrain elevation information. A reference management plan mi...

Priority ranking maps for the individual ecosystem services

Control files for the Zonation analyses

Map showing the location of the study area in Finland. The thematic map indicates the total growing stock volume, while NoData depicts non-forested pixels.

Key messageWe present a data-driven technique to visualize forest landscapes and simulate their future development according to alternative management scenarios. Gentle harvesting intensities were preferred for maintaining scenic values in a test of eliciting public’s preferences based on the simulated landscapes. ContextVisualizations of future fo...

Determining optimal forest management to provide multiple goods and services, also referred to as Ecosystem Services (ESs), requires operational-scale information on the suitability of the forest for the provisioning of various ESs. Remote sensing allows wall-to-wall assessments and provides pixel data for a flexible composition of the management u...