Benefits for companies: innovation for commercial activities
Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2025 3:27 am
For example, the accurate forest inventory, which is based on modern laser scanning, has been developed in cooperation between FGI and forestry companies. Companies receive tens of millions of euros per year in financial benefits, and this also produces a significant societal impact.
The methodology is still under development, and current research focuses on the development of a smart harvester with Finnish industrial companies. Other societally significant projects include research of reference systems (coordinates and the elevation system) and their links to turkey mobile database systems, research of satellite positioning and jamming, research of smart vehicles and drones, as well as digital twins.
In all of its operations, FGI aims to engage all companies that transfer FGI’s innovation to commercial activities. The Location Innovation Hub (LIH), FGI’s latest European Digital Innovation Hub project, accelerates these activities especially in the sector of small and medium-sized enterprises.
The next Government will have an excellent opportunity to copy a piece of the strategy of the world’s largest companies, update the report on spatial data policy, and invest in geospatial data expertise. This will return billions of euros through successful automation and digitalisation projects.
Jarkko Koskinen
The author is the Deputy Director General of the NLS’s Finnish Geospatial Research Institute.
In the National Land Survey of Finland blog, different authors discuss various matters topical to the National Land Survey of Finland.
The methodology is still under development, and current research focuses on the development of a smart harvester with Finnish industrial companies. Other societally significant projects include research of reference systems (coordinates and the elevation system) and their links to turkey mobile database systems, research of satellite positioning and jamming, research of smart vehicles and drones, as well as digital twins.
In all of its operations, FGI aims to engage all companies that transfer FGI’s innovation to commercial activities. The Location Innovation Hub (LIH), FGI’s latest European Digital Innovation Hub project, accelerates these activities especially in the sector of small and medium-sized enterprises.
The next Government will have an excellent opportunity to copy a piece of the strategy of the world’s largest companies, update the report on spatial data policy, and invest in geospatial data expertise. This will return billions of euros through successful automation and digitalisation projects.
Jarkko Koskinen
The author is the Deputy Director General of the NLS’s Finnish Geospatial Research Institute.
In the National Land Survey of Finland blog, different authors discuss various matters topical to the National Land Survey of Finland.