Slides from the 3rd Technical Meeting of the Slope Project

1. Project SLOPE
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WP 6 – System integration

2. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Agenda
• Work Package Goals
• Tasks and Roles Overview
• Timeline
• Deliverables
• Task Details
• Task 6.02
• Task 6.03
• Open Discussion

3. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Work Package Key aspects
T.6.2
T.6.3
T.6.4
• Build a working system
• Ready for pilots and on-the-field testing
• 3 Main tasks:
• First Integration - Forest Inventory & Harvesting
System
• Second Integration - Forest Management
• Third Integration – System Validation
• Technical and Economical Analysis
• Overall solution costs
• Social impacts
• Environmental impacts

4. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Tasks and Roles
• T.6.1 Definition of integration Steps
• Task leader: GRAPHITECH; Participants: MHG, FLY, ITENE
• T.6.2 First Integration - Forest inventory & harvesting systems
• Task leader: GRAPHITECH; Participants: MHG, FLY, GRE, TRE, ITENE, COM, CNR
• T.6.3 Second integration – Forest management
• Task leader: MHG; Participants: CNR, BOKU, GRE, TRE, ITENE
• T.6.4 – Third integration - System validation
• Task leader: GRAPHITECH; Participants: COM, MHG, BOKU, FLY, GRE, TRE, ITENE
• T.6.5 – Scientific Coordination
• Task leader: GRAPHITECH;

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WP 6 System Integration
T.6.1 Definition of the integration steps
T.6.2 First Integration – Forest inventory & harvesting systems
T.6.3 Second integration – Forest management
T.6.4 Third integration -System validation
T.6.5 Scientific coordination
Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Timeline, Deliverables, Milestone, Project Meetings
D.6.01 System Integration and Validation Plan
D.6.021 System Integration Report I
D.6.041 SLOPE System Techno-Economic Evaluation Report I
D.6.022 System Integration Report II
D.6.042 SLOPE System Techno-Economic Evaluation Report II
D.6.023 System Integration Report III
D.6.043 SLOPE System Techno-Economic Evaluation Report III
MS04 SLOPE System Integration Planning is completed
MS05 Forest Inventory and Intelligent Harvesting system integration
MS07 Forest Management system integrated
MS09 System testing ending
D.6.03 SLOPE System Field Trials Readiness Assessment Report
Technical Meetings
Review Meeting
Deliverable
Milestone

6. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Deliverables
• D. 6.01 System Integration and Validation Plan (M16)
• Integration and validation procedures and timeline to validate the SLOPE system
• Based on the use cases in WP1
• D.6.03 SLOPE System Field Trials Readiness Assessment Report (M36)
• Assessment of the initial user experience and recommendations for the field trials
operations.
• Guidance and system operation manual for the Field Trials operators

7. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Deliverables
• D. 6.021 System Integration Report I (M27):
• Integration test and validation concept procedures results
• Assessment of the initial user experience
• Recommendations for field trials operations
• D 6.022 System Integration Report II (M31):
• Integration test and validation concept procedures results (rev. 2)
• Assessment of the initial user experience (rev. 2)
• Recommendations for field trials operations (rev. 2)
• D 6.023 System Integration Report III (M34):
• Integration test and validation concept procedures results (rev. 3)
• Assessment of the initial user experience (rev. 3)
• Recommendations for field trials operations (rev. 3)

8. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Deliverables
• D6.041 SLOPE System Techno-Economic Evaluation Report I (M27):
• Analysis of technical and economical aspects of SLOPE system
• Current practices and the potential known alternatives comparison
• Estimation phase
• D6.042 SLOPE System Techno-Economic Evaluation Report II (M31):
• Analysis of technical and economical aspects of SLOPE system
• Current practices and the potential known alternatives comparison
• Preliminary results phase
• D6.043 SLOPE System Techno-Economic Evaluation Report III (M34):
• Analysis of technical and economical aspects of SLOPE system
• Current practices and the potential known alternatives comparison
• Final results phase

9. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Deliverables Progress
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Deliverables Status

10. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Tasks Overview

11. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Task 6.1 – Definition of the integration steps
• Status: Completed (100%)
• Length: 7 Months (From M10 to M16)
• 5 Involved Partners
• Leader: GraphiTech
• Participants: COMPOLAB, MHG, FLY, ITENE
• Aim: Achieve a complete integration of the different components
that are part of the SLOPE platform to be tested on pilot areas
• Output:
• D.6.01 System integration and validation plan

12. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Integration Strategy
Waterfall + agile like approach
• 3 major loops of integration and lab validation
• 4 minor loops of iterative evolution
• Bug fixing and integration at high frequency
• Parallel support for real use case pilots
T.6.2
T.6.3
T.6.4

13. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Integration Strategy - 2
For each main integration step:
• Involved components
• Timeline (integration steps, milestones, telcos, days for testing)
• One testing scenario
• Involved actors
• HW and SW requirements
• Functional requirements
• defining a function
• Non-functional requirements
• defining a criteria for an operation
• Testing approach

14. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Task 6.2 – First integration: forest inventory
and harvesting systems
• Status: In progress (50%)
• Length: 14 Months (From M14 to M27)
• 8 Involved Partners
• Leader: GraphiTech
• Participants: COMPOLAB, MHG, FLY, GRE, TRE, ITENE, CNR
• Aim:
• Integration of forest information system (FIS) with harvesting
measurement systems and software components
• Output:
• D.6.21 System integration report I
• D.6.41 SLOPE System Techno-Economic Evaluation Report I

15. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Task 6.2 - Effort
• GraphiTech
• 3D Harvesting planner improvements (alpha 1.2, 1.3 and 1.4)
• Banana Pro board
• Integration coordination (Telcos, reports, etc.)
• MHG
• FIS improvements and adaptations
• TREE
• Backend development for on field app
• Upload of trees on the FIS
• ITENE
• Intelligent truck system finalization

16. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Alpha 1.2 - Features
• Cable crane placement, profiling and animation
• Multilanguage support (Italian, German, English)
• 3D moving objects along a path (for real-time
tracking)
• Project saving
• Added Lammertal data
• Legend associated with cadastral and public data
• Bug fixes

17. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Alpha 1.3 - Features
• Features:
• Login/Logout
• Automatic PDF Report generation
• Compass
• New WMS data for Austrian pilot
• Rope Launcher Easer simulation
• Added FlyBy Satellite imagery

18. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Video

19. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Alpha 1.4 – Upcoming features
• Improved profiling and drawing tools
• DSM + DTM data from Annaberg test site
• Multiresolution terrain support
• Database Trees visualization and spatial queries (TREE)
• Database Truck visualization (ITENE)
• Improved cable way visualization
• Long distance fog (+30% performance)
• Improved terrain loading times

20. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Alpha 1.5 – Planned features
• New rope launcher easer (new requirements from Greifenberg)
• Point of interest (sawmills, storage areas, etc.)
• New interface for stand analysis (Virtual tree selection)
• Tree stand visualization and spatial queries

21. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Task 6.02 Components

22. Technical Meeting
19-21/Jan/2016
Task 6.02Timeline
• 4 agile-like integration sprints (bimonthly)
• 2 sprint overlapping with step 2
• 1 monitoring meeting every 2 weeks
• 1 Round of testing at the end of each sprint
• Incremental built of D.6.02.1 Report
• Incremental build of D.6.04.1
→ Only 2 Completed
→ Done
→ Only 2 Completed
→ Draft
→ Draft

23. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Task 6.02 Integration Goals
1. Connection of the 3D modelling for harvesting planning (T.2.4) with the FIS
• [75%] Some features need to be finalized
2. Connection of handheld devices (Treemetrics and MHG) with the FIS
• [70%] Treemetrics field app backend communication to be completed
• [40%] MHG app development still in progress
3. Connection of cable crane and processor head enhanced HW with the FIS
• [50%] Head processor under construction, TECNO lacks Banana Pro board
4. Connection of truck control units with the FIS
• [100%] Ready
5. Connection of planning and editing functionalities already available in the 3D
modelling for harvesting planning system with the FIS
• [25%] Tools depend strongly on data availability and development has been
delayed

24. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Task 6.02 – Actors, HW and SW
• Actors:
• Forest Planner
• Forest operator
• On-field harvesting operator
• Forestry expert
• Cableway Operator
• Hardware:
• RFID Handheld (Tablet / Smartphone)
• GPS Sensor (integrated inside the handheld or
external)
• Industrial PC installed inside the harvesting
machine
• CompactRIO Custom system
• Desktop Computer
• Wifi/3G connectivity
• Software:
• 3D Planning for Harvesting
software
• Forest Information System
(Web Services and Database)
• Web Mapping Service
(GeoServer)

25. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Task 6.02 – Functional Requirements
3 Analytics
3.1 Show satellite imagery HIGH
3.2 Toggle aerial imagery visualization of the
stand
HIGH
3.3 Toggle NIR imagery visualization of the stand HIGH
3.4 Toggle open data visualization MEDIUM
3.5 Toggle digital surface model visualization HIGH
3.6 Distance measurement HIGH
3.7 Area measurement HIGH
3.8 Terrain profiling HIGH
3.9 Point of interest visualization MEDIUM
4.0 Toggle roads visualization HIGH
4 Operation
4.1 Cableway planning HIGH
4.1.1 Add/Remove pillars HIGH
4.1.2 Show harvesting area HIGH
4.1.3 Show cable information (angles, height from
terrain, length)
HIGH
4.1.4 Show cable line profile MEDIUM
4.2 Working area setup
4.2.1 Draw working area HIGH
4.2.2 Place harvesting machines HIGH
4.2.3 Place other resources HIGH
4.2.4 Plan routes MEDIUM
4.3 Track felling activities MEDIUM
4.4 Toggle building and terminals visualization MEDIUM
4.5 Track logistics MEDIUM
4.5.1 Show truck movements MEDIUM
4.5.2 Track wood storage areas MEDIUM
4.5.3 Track sawmills MEDIUM
4.5.4 Show logs inventory MEDIUM
4.6 Track harvesting progress HIGH
4.6.1 Real-time updates and statistics MEDIUM
4.7 Show weather conditions and forecast HIGH
5 Forest
5.1 Toggle stand visualization HIGH
5.2 Toggle simple tree models visualization (from UAV) HIGH
5.3 Toggle complex tree models visualization (from TLS) HIGH
5.4 Single tree selection and inspection HIGH
5.5 Single tree virtual marking HIGH
5.5.1 Issue a report MEDIUM
5.5.2 Update tree properties (Quality indices, status, etc.) HIGH
5.6 Retrieve forest area information MEDIUM

26. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Task 6.02 – Non-Functional Requirements
Forest Information System (FIS)
1 User friendliness HIGH
2 Compatibility with all the desktop browsers HIGH
3 Compatibility with mobile browsers MEDIUM
4 Cross platform HIGH
5 Dynamic interface MEDIUM
Mobile scenario
6 Easy identification of virtually marked trees on the field HIGH
7 GPS signal should work in the forest MEDIUM
8 Offline fault tolerance MEDIUM
In-vehicle scenario
8 Offline fault tolerance MEDIUM

27. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Testing
• 2 Validations done out of 4
• 3rd validation postponed due to lack of advancements
• 2-3 days of work for each validation
• Test of each requirement in laboratory conditions
• Based on functional test case
• Threshold to be reached 70%

28. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Testing Results
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29. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Testing Results
• Lack of tracking use cases tests
• Trucks
• Virtual tree/log marking
• Working area setup
• Some bugs on the harvesting planner interface

30. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Conclusions and Remedial Actions
• Slight delay
• Lack of the majority of DB dependent test cases
• Expected 15-20% higher successful test cases in validation 3
• Still a lot of integration work pending
• Action plan (weekly goals) for the upcoming months defined

31. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
T.6.2 Action Plan
• Ready by 22 Jan:
• GRA: Verify if we can use tabs with the system, fix bi-weekly meeting by 8-11
• Ready by 29 Jan:
• TREE: App with bugs fixed, deliverable 5.02 ready
• GRA: Version 1.4 online, Provide Hourly cost for data processing, verify if we
can merge road shp with points to understand lenght per type, steep?
• FLY: Maps from flyby
• MHG: provide costs for platform to CNR
• Ready by 05 Feb:
• GRA: Validation 3 done
• CNR: D.6.04.1 first version
• ITENE: Test routes in the DB from task 3.05
• MHG: Mobile app first version ready
• Ready by 12 Feb:
• GRA: Banana Pro ready and connected with the cable crane
• ALL: Telco

32. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
T.6.2 Action Plan
• Ready by 19 Feb:
• Item 1: First version of D.6.02.1
• Ready by 26 Feb:
• Item 1: Verify adapter development
• Item 2:
• Ready by 04 Mar:
• CNR + GT: Testing by experts (Organized by CNR): Paola Covac and
Prof. Marchi from Florence
• Ready by 11 Mar:
• ALL: Start thinking about what can be performed during the piot
from a software point of view
• Item 2:

33. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
T.6.2 Action Plan
• Ready by 18 Mar:
• COMP: Processor head ready
• Ready by June-July:
• GRE, COMP: Pilot / Demo / Review
• Ready by July:
• MHG: Meeting with ponsse or another similar company for
processor head

34. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Open Discussion

35. Technical Meeting
19-21 Jan 16
Thank you for your attention
DANIELE MAGLIOCCHETTI
daniele.magliocchetti@graphitech.it
Fondazione Graphitech
Via Alla Cascata 56C
38123 Trento (ITALY)
Phone: +39 0461.283395
Fax: +39 0461.283398

36. Project SLOPE
WP6 T6.3 – Second integration
Forest management
Cork, 20th January, 2016
Technical Meeting
20/Jan/16

37. Overview
Technical Meeting
20/Jan/16
• Status: In progress (20%)
• Length: 10 Months (From M22 to M31)
• Involved Partners
• Leader: MHG
• Participants: CNR, BOKU, GRE, TRE, ITENE
• Aim: Integrate the results of on-field data collection into the
forest management system including the analysis resulting from
WP4
• Output: D6.022 System Integration Report II

38. Objectives
• Specify integration points and adapters
• Develop FIS Web Service module to handle all transactions
and connections
• Connection of purchasing/invoicing system with the FIS
• Connection of real-time operation control system with the
FIS
• Develop adapters
• Test integration points
• Integrate user interfaces
• Make report about the integration phase (System
Integration Report II)
Technical Meeting
20/Jan/16

39. Timeline
M22 M23 M24 M25 M26 M27 M28 M29 M30 M31
Start M22 – End M31
Virtual meetings every 2 weeks
Validation points when components are ready
Report and task
ready
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Specification Implementation & Testing

40. Deliverable overview
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41. Deliverable overview
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20/Jan/16
User Interface
(Entry point)
(Graphitech)
Slope Viewer
(MHG) Operation
management
(MHG) Planning
tooli - Iptim
SLOPE FIS
Web Service
(+Adapters)
Graphitech
Services
MHG
Services
Treemetrics
Services
(MHG) Online
sales platform

42. Technical Meeting
20/Jan/16
Data Integration
JSON Data
SLOPE FIS
Web Service
SLOPE FIS Database
Integration
Adapters
Treemetrics
MHG
• Specify integration points
• Specify and implement triggers and adapters for data communication between
different services
• Extend SLOPE FIS Web Service when needed

43. Technical Meeting
20/Jan/16
User Interface Integration
User
Interface
SLOPE FIS Database
Web App 1
Web App 2
• Use light weight model to integrate web user interfaces to single entry
point
• Implement SLOPE FIS integration app for user interface integration
• Use SLOPE FIS database for user management
• Iframe or link/tab integration
Auth
Web App 3

44. Technical Meeting
20/Jan/16
User Interface Integration
Application selection area
Content

45. Summary
• Task process is in specification stage
• Good picture about the integrations is already defined
• Next step is to start implementations
• Implementing this task will need active communication and co-working
between partners involved
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Contact info
Veli-Matti Plosila veli-matti.plosila@mhgsystems.com
Seppo Huurinainen seppo.huurinainen@mhgsystems.com
Thank you for your attention