Using harvester data from on-board computers: a review of key findings, opportunities and challenges
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REVIEW ARTICLE
Using harvester data from on‑board computers: a review of key findings, opportunities and challenges Julia Kemmerer1 · Eric R. Labelle2 Received: 1 February 2020 / Revised: 30 June 2020 / Accepted: 30 August 2020 © The Author(s) 2020
Abstract Single-grip harvesters are equipped with an on-board computer that can normally collect standardized data. In times of increased mechanization, digitalization and climate change, use of this extensive data could provide a solution for better managing calamities-outbreaks and gaining competitiveness. Because it remains unclear in which way harvester data can contribute to this and optimization of the forest supply chain, the focus of this review was to provide a synopsis of how harvester data can be used and present the main challenges and opportunities associated with their use. The systematic literature review was performed with Scopus and Web of Science in the period from 1993 to 2019. Harvester data in form of length and diameter measurements, time, position and fuel data were used in the fields of bucking, time study, inventory and forest operation management. Specifically, harvester data can be used for predicting stand, tree and stem parameters or improving and evaluating the bucking. Another field of application is to evaluate their performance and precision in comparison to other time study methods. Harvester data has a broad range of application, which offers great possibilities for research and practice. Despite these advantages, a lack of precision for certain data types (length and diameter), particularly for trees exhibiting complex architecture where the contact of the measuring wheel on the harvesting head to the wooden body cannot be maintained, and position data, due to signal deflection, should be kept in mind. Keywords Production data · Time study · Productivity · Harvester measurements · Bucking optimization · Digitalization
Introduction Cut‑to‑length mechanization In the field of mechanized forest operations, over 25 years have passed since the first single-grip harvester was equipped with a computer-based measurement system (Ponsse n.d). During this time, additional developments Communicated by Thomas Seifert. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-020-01313-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Julia Kemmerer [email protected] 1
TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Hans‑Carl‑von‑Carlowitz‑Platz 2, 85354 Freising, Germany
Department of Wood and Forest Sciences, Université Laval, 2405 rue de la Terrasse, Québec City G1V 0A6, Canada
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and refinements have ensued to offer a full on-board computer (OBC), which collects data in real-time. The data can contain information about production control, for example the product instructions in the form of price or demand matrices. In most instances, the data can be standardized where information regarding production reporting such as the har
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