Precision Forestry Symposium - Forestry South Africa

First Announcement 

Precision Forestry Symposium 

“Precision Forestry: The anchor of your value chain” 

3 to 5 March 2014 

Presented by 

Department of Forest and Wood Science, 

Stellenbosch University and the International Union of Forest 

Research Organisations 

Venue: 

Wallenberg Research Centre, Stellenbosch 

www.sun.ac.za/forestry/pf2014.htm

Introduction: 

Precision Forestry (PF) 2014 will be the third of a series of international symposia 

aligned to the theme of Precision Forestry and presented by Stellenbosch University in 

cooperation with the International Union of Forest Research Organisation (IUFRO). This 

meeting will review recent developments in the rapidly advancing field of Precision 

Forestry. New technology for data collection, automation, robotics and ICT, makes it 

possible to manage forest operations and to control the supply chain, from growing 

through to and including processing, with a much higher precision than before. PF 2014 

aims to connect the research within the relevant disciplines on an international level. 

What is Precision Forestry? 

Precision Forestry uses high technology sensing and analytical tools to support sitespecific, 

economic, environmental, and sustainable decision‐making for the forestry 

sector supporting the forestry value chain from bare land to the customer buying a sheet 

of paper or board. PF thus provides for additional, adequate quality information about 

forests and the manufacturing of forest products to help maximize economic return 

within accepted, current constraints. It provides the tools to make good decisions, to 

obtain highly repeatable measurements, to take accurate actions, and provides for 

processes to initiate, cultivate and harvest trees, as well as enhance bio‐diversity and 

other environmental resources. It includes planning and conducting site‐specific forest 

management activities and operations to improve wood product quality and utilisation, 

reduce waste, increase profits, and maintain the quality of the environment. 

The Symposium: 

The symposium objectives 

To bring decision‐makers, forest scientists, forest practitioners, academics, forest 

managers and researchers, who are interested in PF together in one forum to share and 

review information, developments, concepts and ideas within the broad listed topics. 

This interaction will facilitate networking to development joint projects and activities 

that will address priority issues. 

The Symposium Format 

The symposium is planned over three days at the Wallenberg Research Centre, 

Stellenbosch (www.sun.ac.za/stias). This will include two days of presentations with a 

third day field trip. The programme will consist of key note addresses and a number of 

invited speakers who will address new PF technologies and scientific developments. 

There is however adequate provision for voluntary contributions by other researchers, 

academics and practitioners from both South Africa and abroad. 

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Provisional programme 

Morning Afternoon Evening 

Sunday 3 March Arrival Arrival Ice‐breaker 

Monday 4 March Technical sessions Technical sessions Dinner (symposium) 

Tuesday 5 March Field day Field day 

Wednesday 6 March Technical sessions Technical sessions Departure 

Invitation for papers for voluntary oral presentation 

We encourage the submission of abstracts (see abstract template below) by 30 

September 2013 within one of the following thematic areas (please indicate to which 

thematic theme you would prefer the submission be placed): 

1. Enhanced forest stand and individual tree attribute information (from LiDAR and 

other remote sensing technologies) 

2. Improved operational tracking/monitoring technologies to improve supply chain 

agility and reaction time 

3. New transportation logistics technologies for fibre deliveries, including cost and 

carbon emissions reductions 

4. Decision support developments in forest operations 

5. Matching available fibre qualities to new bio‐pathways (new forest‐based 

biomaterials and bio‐chemicals) 

6. Development of site‐specific Precision forest management strategies 

Conference proceedings: 

Conference proceeding consisting of the extended format abstracts will be made 

available on a CD on conference registration day. Authors accepted for presentation 

should submit extended abstracts by 31 December 2013 (see example of the required 

format of the extended abstract below – i.e., abstract template). 

Important preliminary dates: 

Early registration deadline 31 December 2013 

Late registration deadline 31 January 2014 

Registration cancellation deadline 31 January 2014 

Abstract submission 30 September 2013 

Feedback from technical committee 15 November 2013 

Extended abstract submission for proceedings 31 December 2013 

International Journal of Forest Engineering 

Authors of accepted abstracts (notified by 15 November 2013) will be invited to submit 

full manuscripts for inclusion in the International Journal of Forest Engineering (IJFE) by 

31 March 2014. Full manuscripts not accepted for publication in the IJFE will be 

returned to the author(s) for submission elsewhere. (Author instructions: 

http://journals.hil.unb.ca/ index.php/IJFE/article/view/ 19511) 


Scientific review committee 

Pierre Ackerman, South Africa 

Walter Warkotsch, Germany 

Martin Ziesak, Switzerland 

Jim O'hehir, Australia 

Maryse Bigot, France 

Reino Pulkki, Canada 

Bo Dahlin, Finland 

Bruce Talbot, Norway 

Glen Murphy, New Zealand 

Tim McDonald, USA 

Jean Favreau, Canada 

Hans Heinemann, Switzerland 

Jori Uusitalo, Finland 

Ola Lindroos, Sweden 

Dirk Jaeger, Germany 

Dirk Laengin, South Africa 

Conference organising committee 

Pierre Ackerman (packer@sun.ac.za) 

Hannél Ham (hamh@sun.ac.za) 

Lise Gleasure 

Jaco van der Merwe 

John Rabie 

Registration information 

Registration fees are payable in South African Rand (ZAR) and should be paid according 

to the instructions on the registration form included in this announcement. The 

registration fee for early registration will be ZAR 4 600/delegate and ZAR 2 

500/accompanying person, which includes an ice‐breaker, lunches, teas and a field 

excursion. The charge for students officially registered at a recognised university will be 

R 4 000 each (please supply proof of current registration). The late registration fee in all 

cases (except for accompanying persons) is 

R5 000. All prices excluding VAT. Please complete the registration form and e‐mail or 

fax it to Hannél Ham at hamh@sun.ac.za or +27 21 808 3603. Attendance to the 

symposium will only be confirmed once full payment has been received. 

Cancellation of registration: 

A 50% discount on registration fees will be payable if a cancellation request is received 

before 31 January 2014. We regret that no refund of registration fees will be considered 

after 31 January 2014. 

Accommodation opportunities: 

Please refer to the website at http://academic.sun.ac.za/forestry/pf2014.htm 

Sponsorship Opportunity: 

The conference organizational committee invites organizations interested in sponsoring 

this event to visit http://academic.sun.ac.za/forestry/pf2014.htm for more details, or to 

contact Hannél Ham (hamh@sun.ac.za). 


Contact Information: 

For further information please contact Hannél Ham (hamh@sun.ac.za) or Pierre 

Ackerman (packer@sun.ac.za). 

Abstract template 

Fibre volume losses of eight softwood clearfell harvesting systems in South Africa 

(font 12 pt, bold, capital letters, left alignment) 

P Ackerman 1 and R Pulkki 1,2 (font 11 pt., italics, left alignment) 

1 Department of Forest and Wood Science, Stellenbosch University, Private Bag X1, Matieland 

7602, South Africa. packer@sun.ac.za 

2 Faculty of Natural Resources Management, Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder 

Bay, Ontario, Canada. rpulkki@lakeheadu.ca (font 10 pt., left alignment) 

[Note: This abstract will be published in proceedings of extended abstracts. It should 

provide sufficient insight into your research study without jeopardizing subsequent 

publication in a peer review journal. For guidance on the publication of results in 

proceedings and peer review journals, see the section ‘Publishing in proceedings and 

IJFE?’ 

http://journals.hil.unb.ca/index.php/IJFE/about/editorialPolicies#sectionPolicies] 

Section headings such as Introduction and Materials and Methods should be bold 12 

pt. 

The abstract is limited to max 3 pages (preferably 2), including title, authors, figures, etc. 

The text shall be in «Times New Roman», (12 pt), with single line spacing. No indenting. 

The papers are to be presented in A4 format (210x297 mm, all margins 25 mm) in 

English. 

The abstract should include brief sections including introduction, material and methods, 

results, conclusions and references. 

Figure 1: The Owren mini 400 (photo: Morten Nitteberg) 


Illustrations (pictures, graphs) should be of high quality, and will be printed grey scale. 

Illustrations can be placed directly in the text. Please use the picture formatting tool in 

MS‐Word to compress any images to ‘print quality’ in order to reduce file size. 

Illustration and table captions, as well as column headings should be printed in (10 pt. 

bold). Tables are printed with borders, and centre aligned ‐ no formatting (styles) 

should be used. 

Table 1 Description of conditions 

Equipment Corridor length (m) Corridor width (m) Yield (m 3 / ha) 

Yarder 1 320 25 600 

Yarder 2 410 22 480 

Literature cited 

Cited literature should be listed alphabetically at the end of the manuscript. If an author 

is repeated, the sequence is single author first, then two authors. References within the 

text should be cited in parentheses in chronological order at the appropriate location 

using the author‐date style. For example" (Banks 1997, Adams and Jones 1998, Smith et 

al. 2000)". 

List of cited literature is published of 1 line space, font 11 pt., in alphabetical order. 

Alignment is provided by width. 

Examples: 

For journal articles: 

Erefur, C., Bergsten, U. & de Chantal, M. 2008. Establishment of direct seeded seedlings 

of Norway spruce and Scots pine: Effects of stand conditions, orientation and distance 

with respect to shelter tree, and fertilization. Forest Ecology and Management 

255:1186‐1195 

Lieffers, V.J. & Stadt. K.J. 2003. Aging discrepancies of white spruce affect the 

interpretation of static age structure in boreal mixed woods. Canadian Journal of Forest 

Research. 33: 2820‐2821. 

For book chapters: 

Fløistad, I.S., Granhus, A. & Hanssen, K.H. 2009. Norway. In: Willoughby, I. et al. (eds.): 

Forest vegetation management in Europe. Current practice and future requirements, pp. 

91‐98. Cost Office, Brussels. 


Registration Form 

The venue is Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa. 

Please visit the symposium website for additional information. 

http://academic.sun.ac.za/forestry/pf2014.htm 

Please complete and return this form along with payment to the Symposium manager, Mrs 

Hannél Ham at either: Department of Forest and wood Science, Private Bag X1, Matieland. 

7602. Or Fax: +27 21‐808 3603 or E‐mail: hamh@sun.ac.za 

No cancellations, refunds or late registrations will be accommodated after 31 

January 2014 (see website for relevant deadlines) 

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2. SPECIAL REQUIREMNETS: 

Please note any specific dietary or other requirements (e.g. vegetarian meals or wheelchair 

access) 

3. SYMPOSIUM REGISTRATION COST 

Early registrants (delegates): ZAR 4 600 (excluding VAT) 

Cost per registered student: ZAR 4 000 (excluding VAT) 

Late registrants (including students): ZAR 5 000 (excluding VAT) 

Accompanying person: 

ZAR 2 500 (excluding VAT) 


PAYMENT DETAILS 

(Foreign payments) 

Please deposit amount payable into the following account and 

Send remittance to Mrs Hannél Ham. 

Fax: +27 21 808 3603 or E-mail: hamh@sun.ac.za 

Account name: 

Bank: 

Branch code: 

Account number: 

Swift Code: 

University of Stellenbosch 

FIRST NATIONAL BANK 

204109 

621 0717 7083 

FIRNZAJJ796 

Amount Paid: 

Reference: R261/(surname) 

Date Paid: 

Method of Payment: 

Cheque payment 

Money order or bank draft 

I _______________________________________________, the undersigned wish to register 

for the Precision Forestry 2014 symposium, Stellenbosch, and understand the registration 

terms and conditions as outlined on the Symposium’s webpage 

http://academic.sun.ac.za/forestry/pf2014.htm . 

Date: ______________________ 

Signature: _________________________ 

For office use only: 

Invoice Issued Confirmed Receipt of Payment Confirmed Registration 


PAYMENT DETAILS 

(South African payments) 

Please deposit amount payable into the following account and 

Send remittance to Mrs Hannél Ham. 

Fax: +27 21 808 3603 or E-mail: hamh@sun.ac.za 

Account name: 

Bank: 

Branch code: 

Account number: 

Amount Paid: 

University of Stellenbosch 

STANDARD BANK 

050610 

073 006 955 

Reference: R261/(surname) 

Method of Payment: 

Date Paid: 

Cheque payment 

Money order or bank draft 

I _______________________________________________, the undersigned wish to register 

for the Precision Forestry 2014 symposium in Stellenbosch, and understand the registration 

terms and conditions as outlined on the Symposium’s webpage 

http://academic.sun.ac.za/forestry/pf2014.htm . 

Date: ______________________ 

Signature: _________________________ 

For office use only: 

Invoice Issued Confirmed Receipt of Payment Confirmed Registration

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