Metsään.fi | e-Services for Forest Owners and Service providers

Metsään.fi | e-Services for Forest Owners and Service providers

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Metsään.fi provides eServices for forest owners and forestry service providers. The online application shows the maps, forest information and, silvicultural and cutting possibilities of each forest estate and their compartments:

  1. Soil and forest site type
  2. Growing stock
  3. Treatment proposals for a five-year period
  4. Natural values (habitats of special importance)
  5. Latest maps and aerial photographs with compartment borders
  6. Annual growth. 

Metsään.fi also allows forest owners to apply for subsidies for improvement of young stands and declare notifications of forest use (e.eg. cuttings) by filling e-forms instead of paper ones. In addition, forest owners can contact forest service producers via the system. Metsään.fi is quite easy to use and it provides the forest owner many new flexible services, e.g. e-forms for applying subsidies. It’s a safe system, although being a public one.  A strong identification of the user is needed, use of Suomi.fi e-Identification is safe and provided by the state. Suomi.fi e-Identification contains a list of the identification tokens for example using online banking codes, mobile certificate or certificate cards

The Finnish Forest Centre collects and maintains remote sensing based data of forest resources covering the private forests. Metsään.fi is a free portal using that forest data for serving forest owners and forestry service providers. It has been found to encourage forest owners to carry out silvicultural works and generally for developing forest businesses. 

Metsään.fi in numbers in early 2020: 13,5 million hectares of forest data in the service, 108 765 forest owners have visited the service, 942 service providers have joined the service, 2461 operators use the service, 8,4 million hectares available to operators, 537 706 consents available to operators.

Type de bois
Grume
Origine du bois
Forêt
Potentiel de mobilisation
Not possible to assess
Type de bois concerné
Stemwood; Above and below ground woody biomass
Potentiel de durabilité
Very positive, shows the cutting possibilities and demand of silvicultural measures
Impact sur l'environnement et la biodiversité

Very positive, shows the environmental values (habitats of special importance) in the compartments of the forest estate

Facilité d'implémentation
Easy
Impact économique
Communication between forest owners and forestry service providers
Effet sur l'emploi
Positive, new jobs for service providers
Effet sur le revenu
Positive, forest owners sell wood and services providers get income
Connaissances spécifiques requises
Not any specific knowledge needed
Prérequis clés

Web page, see above

Domaine principal
Propriété, coopération
Getsion forestière, sylviculture, services écosystémiques, résilience
Défi concerné
3. Dynamiser les propriétaires forestiers et la gestion forestière coopérative
Type de solution
Conseil, outils de service pour les propriétaires forestiers
Solution digitale
Oui
Innovation
Non
Pays d'origine
Finlande
Echelle d'application
Nationale
Début et fin d'année
2012 -
Informations de contact
Propriétaire ou auteur
Rapporteur
References and Resources
Projet sous lequel cette fiche d'information a été créée
Rosewood