Kari Väätäinen

Senior Scientist
  • Phone number +358295323259
  • Email address kari.vaatainen@luke.fi
  • Address Yliopistokatu 6 B 80100 JOENSUU

Ongoing projects

Seasonal Trafficability of Forest Soils and Gravel Roads

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2025–2029

Optimising forest operations for sustainable forest management & high-value applications -OptiForValue

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2024–2028

Carbon Management for Building Resilience: Local Capacity Development for Sustainable Forest Resource Management, Climate Change Adaptation in Sparsely Populated Communities

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2025–2028

Northern Traffic Lights

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2025–2028

Building resilience from new technology

Project
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2021–2025

Completed projects

EUCANwin! - European – Canadian partnership for climate positive heat and power generation through improved biomass feedstock supply and innovative conversion technologies

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2021–2024

Ilmastokestävien jatkuvapeitteisten metsienkasvatuksen korjuun suunnittelu ja toteutus digitalisaation keinoin Pohjois-Karjalassa (KESTO)

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2022–2023

Novel digital solutions and multi-sourced data in assessing trafficability of forest roads – Take me home country road

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2022–2023

Forest-Human-Machine Interplay

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2020–2023

Breakthrough for open forest and nature data – from data masses to products and efficient tools for service production

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2020–2022

Technological and conceptual basis for Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF)

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2020–2022

Techniques and Technologies for Effective Wood Procurement

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2016–2021

Harvesting alternatives for land clearing wood and buffer storing of comminuted wood biomass

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2018–2020

Smart logging and transportation

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2018–2020

Generating Renewable Energy Business Enterprise

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2015–2018

Computerised bioeconomic models for resource-smart planning

Project
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2017

Digitalization in Bioeconomy -roadmap

Project
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2016–2017

Toimitusvarmat ja tehokkaat puubiomassan hankintaketjut metsästä loppukäyttäjälle

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2012–2017

Developing the forest biomass supply systems by rearranging supply operations and logistics

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2017