📋 Tender Overview
Single Item Identification For Forest Production, Protection And Management
New Traceability System For Trees, Logs And Boardsinformation And Communication Technologies (Icts) Have The Potential To Enhance The Eu Forest Sector. However, Their Current Use Is Limited To Well-Established Timber Markets. Along With The Absence Of Traceability Tools, This Results In Data Losses And Facilitates Illegal Practices. The Eu-Funded Sintetic Project Aims To Establish An Ict-Based Traceability System For Trees, Logs And Boards That Spans The Entire Forest-Based Value Chain. The Project~S Objectives Include A 10 % Increase In The Recovery Of Valuable Timber Assortments, Enhanced Efficiency Within The Timber Supply Chain, A Rise In The Yield Of High-Quality Sawnwood Products From 20 % To 22 %, And A 15 % Reduction In Illegal Logging And Associated Timber Trade. Furthermore, Sintetic Seeks To Promote The Widespread Adoption Of Icts In The Forest Sector
Funded Under
Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture And Environment
Total Cost
€ 8 853 625,00
Eu Contribution
€ 7 547 650,00
Coordinated By
Consorci Centre De Ciencia I Tecnologia Forestal De Catalunya
Spain
Objective
The core objective of SINTETIC is to set up and demonstrate a traceability system for trees, logs and boards based on ICT through a central Geodatabase covering all the forest-based value chain.
This faces the 3 main drawbacks of the ICTs in the forestry sector:
-Deployed only in areas with mature timber market (North/Central EU vs. South EU).
-Currently cannot be used during the whole value chain, causing several losses.
-A reliable tool for tracing the origin of forest product is missing, still allowing illegal practices.
Along with the core objective, the SINTETIC proposal will pursuit:
SOBJ1: To achieve a higher value recovery of timber assortments (+10%).
SOBJ2: To increase the overall efficiency of the timber supply chain.
SOBJ3: To provide a greater competitive advantage of the EU forest industry (yield of high value sawnwood products from 20% to 22%).
SOBJ4: To increase of the EU forested area under active management (aggregation of 12.000 ha fragmented properties).
SOBJ5: To increase both the timber value, the resilience and the ecosystem services provided.
SOBJ6: To tackle illegal logging and the related timber trade (-15%).
SOBJ7: To facilitate a homogeneous and widespread uptake of the ICTs in the forest sector.
The main expected results are:
RES1: Manual marking and quality assessment (traceability system).
RES2: Smartphone APP for motormanual operations.
RES3: Processor head prototype.
RES4: Harvester LiDAR.
RES5: Sawmill sensors and traceability of sawnwood.
RES6: Earth observation illegal logging alert service.
RES7: Forest ownership aggregation platform.
To make all this possible, SINTETIC will develop a geodatabase with a set of data providers interconnected by the traceability system. It'll provide:
1) Multi-platform data acquisition
