The aim of the procurement is to find an innovation partner(s) (hereinafter referred to as the Innovation Partner) with whom the aim is to develop a system that digitalises the observation of forest damage as comprehensively as possible. It is possible to observe forest damage using various remote sensing methods. During the development phase, the innovation partner develops a system that, by utilising machine learning, learns to interpret forest damage as comprehensively as possible from satellite images and distributes forest damage observations as geospatial data to the Forest Centre. The Forest Centre is closely involved in the development phase by offering its expertise in forest damage and data interpretation.
The aim of the procurement is to find an innovation partner(s) (hereinafter referred to as the Innovation Partner) with whom the aim is to develop a system that digitalises the observation of forest damage as comprehensively as possible. It is possible to observe forest damage using various remote sensing methods. During the development phase, the innovation partner develops a system that, by utilising machine learning, learns to interpret forest damage as comprehensively as possible from satellite images and distributes forest damage observations as geospatial data to the Forest Centre. The Forest Centre is closely involved in the development phase by offering its expertise in forest damage and data interpretation.
The aim of the procurement is to produce processed data on forest damage observations as spatial data for the Forest Centre, to be further utilised in the Forest Centre's own systems, which enables the automated communication of detected forest damage to landowners and other interest groups. The Forest Centre will automatically distribute area-specific, tree-specific and/or raster-level information to both company and forest owner customers in real time as spatial data. Based on forest damage observations, the Forest Centre automatically generates monitoring reports for the use of operator customers and to support their felling planning.
At the end of the development phase, the Forest Centre may purchase data on forest damage areas interpreted from the Innovation Partner during the contract period, the duration of which is 2+2 years, based on the procurement agreement for the implementation phase.
The copyright to the system to be developed remains with the Innovation Partner, who can utilise the system being developed by offering it to other actors as well. Forest damage is a major problem globally, so the system is expected to create significant business opportunities for the Innovation Partner.
The project, which will be put out to tender through an innovation partnership, has been granted funding from Business Finland.
According to the client's preliminary plan, the service will be developed in cooperation between the client and the innovation partner so that the innovation partner does a significant share of the development work (target 40%) at its own expense and receives only part (target 60%) of the share from the customer. The total costs of the development phase are estimated to be EUR 500,000 (incl. VAT), including the cost of the Forest Centre's own work. The data acquisitions (satellite images) in the development phase are carried out by the innovation partner, but the Forest Centre pays the costs of the data acquisitions.
The pricing model and cost structure for the implementation phase are not yet known, it will be developed and specified during the negotiations and possibly also during the development phase.
Bidders shall have the ability to produce the desired forest vitality symbols at regional, raster and/or tree level and to describe them as point-like or area-like geometries or rasters. Tenderers must also be able to carry out the acquisition of material (eg. High-resolution satellite imagery). By utilising the data acquired during the development phase, it is also possible to develop the observation of phenomena other than forest damage, such as the verification of forest management work.
The object of the procurement is described in more detail in Appendix 1, the object of the procurement and an additional description.
The innovation partnership is described in Annex 2, description of the innovation partnership procedure.