Kari Väätäinen

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

Toward a digital twin of forest roads – road weather stations for monitoring road condition and trafficability in Eastern Finland

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2025

Could a terminal-based operating model reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in road transport of timber?

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2025

The effects of the EU’s forest-related policies on harvesting costs in Finland

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2024

Unlocking Digitalization in Forest Operations with Viewshed Analysis to Improve GNSS Positioning Accuracy

Refereed scientific publications
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2023

Pre-Feasibility Study of Carbon Sequestration Potential of Land Clearing Stumps Buried Underground

Refereed scientific publications
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2023

The effect of road characteristics on timber truck driving speed and fuel consumption based on visual interpretation of road database and data from fleet management system

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2023

A multi-objective optimization strategy for timber forwarding in cut-to-length harvesting operations

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2022

Soil, Driving Speed and Driving Intensity Affect Fuel Consumption of Forwarders

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2022

Effect of vehicle properties and driving environment on fuel consumption and CO2 emissions of timber trucking based on data from fleet management system

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2022

The productivity and cost of harvesting whole trees from early thinnings with a felling head designed for continuous cutting and accumulation

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2022

Spatio-temporal prediction of soil moisture using soil maps, topographic indices and SMAP retrievals

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2022

The effect of bogie track and forwarder design on rut formation in a peatland

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2021

The Impact of Fleet Size, Harvesting Site Reserve, and Timing of Machine Relocations on the Performance Indicators of Mechanized CTL Harvesting in Finland

Refereed scientific publications
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2021

Spatio-temporal prediction of soil moisture and soil strength by depth-to-water maps

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2021

Digital Transformation of Forest Services in Finland—A Case Study for Improving Business Processes

Refereed scientific publications
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2021

Workability and Well-Being at Work Among Cut-To-Length Forest Machine Operators

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2021

Productivity and cost of harvesting overgrowth brushwood from roadsides and field edges

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2021

Productivity of harvesting and clearing of brushwood alongside forest roads

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2020

Cutting duration and performance parameters of a harvester’s sawing unit under real working conditions

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2020

The effect of winter weather on timber truck tare weights

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2020

Roundwood and Biomass Logistics in Finland and Sweden

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2020

The influence of gross vehicle weight (GVW) and transport distance on timber trucking performance indicators – Discrete event simulation case study in Central Finland

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2020

Integrated harvesting of industrial roundwood and energy wood from clearcutting of a Scots pine-dominated peatland forest

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2019

Novel extracting methods for conifer stumps

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2019