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Exceeding the Vision: Forest Mechanisation of the Future

52 International Symposium on Forestry Mechanization, 06 - 10 October 2019, Sopron | Forchtenstein (Hungary | Austria)

Program 2019 released

Two plenary and 19! parallel sessions will be held in Sopron at the FORMEC 2019. A digitized poster session let you browse posters online during the conference time: poster programm.

For all the details please have a look at the FORMEC 2019::Program overview.

First joined conference FORMEC & COFE

The 52 edition of the FORMEC symposium will be held in conjunction with the 42 edition of the Council on Forest Engineering (COFE). This is the first time for a COFE meeting taking place in Europe. 2020 will also be joint meeting COFE/FORMEC, but this time it will take place in Oregon (USA).

Keynotes for FORMEC/COFE 2019

Topic	Speaker	Institution
Digitalization of forest harvesting: the potential for improved environmental and production efficiency	Rasmus Astrup	NIBIO
Opportunities in remote sensing of forests related to the arrival of the Sentinel-2 satellite	Clement Atzberger	BOKU
Conducting sustainable forest operations while minimizing environmental impacts: a compilation of research	Chad Bolding	Virginia Tech
Future of forest engineering and its sustainability	Woodam Chung	Oregon State University
Smart Forestry - Smart Forest Operations Engineering and Management	Hans R. Heinimann	ETH Zürich
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in Forestry	Martin Kühmaier	BOKU
Traction versus Ground Protection	Josef Primus	PEWAG Austria