Deere + Company

Johannes Kaarnametsä

Vesa Siltanen

Aki Putkonen

Mikko Palmroth

Heikki Pyykkö

Aki Juha Antero Putkonen

A production system for a forestry application comprising a server and a wireless production network, configured to be connected to forest machines and vehicles, at least one forestry harvester vehicle and one forwarder vehicle, the vehicles having a wireless data connection to the production system server and network, having a positioning system, identify the type of processed logs, measure the amount of processed logs, measure the lengths of processed logs, measure the quality of the processes logs, visually record the vehicle surroundings, process the recorded images to identify objects, store them, and send them via the production network, the vehicles having a display so that the vehicle operator may compare images with different time stamps, the system adapted to visualize changes between the images based on the identified objects and time stamps, so that the vehicle operator may identify tracks, objects, logs, log piles during visually impaired conditions.

Production system and method for forestry application

A method of and arrangement for monitoring the collection of plant material includes the following steps and apparatus for executing these steps, respectively: collecting plant location and attribute data with respect to plant material, before and/or during and/or after harvesting the plant material, providing the plant location and attribute data on a collecting vehicle adapted to collect the harvested plant material, moving the collecting vehicle to the harvested plant material based on the plant location data, collecting the harvested plant material, sensing attribute data of the harvested plant material before and/or during and/or after the collecting, and comparing the sensed attribute data with the plant attribute data and generating an output dependent on the result of the comparison.

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Pirkkala, Finland

Johannes Kaarnametsä