Originating from the academia, SIMO is actively used in research. Here's selection of research articles, either published or work-in-progress, in which SIMO has been used.
Published research articles
Härkönen, S., Mäkinen, A., Tokola, T., Rasinmäki, J., & Kalliovirta, J. 2009. Evaluation of forest growth simulators with NFI permanent sample plot data from Finland. Forest Ecology and Management, doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2009.11.015
Mäkinen, A., Kangas, A., Holopainen, M. & Rasinmäki, J. 2009. Propagating the errors of initial forest variables through stand- and tree-level growth simulators. European Journal of Forest Research. Published Online 15 May 2009. DOI: 10.1007/s10342-009-0288-0
Holopainen, M., Mäkinen, A., Rasinmäki, J., Hyyppä, J., Hyyppä, H., Kaartinen, H., Viitala, R., Vastaranta, M. & Kangas, A. 2009. Effect of tree-level airborne laser-scanning measurement accuracy on the timing and expected value of harvest decisions. European Journal of Forest Research. Published Online 6 May 2009. DOI: 10.1007/s10342-009-0282-6
Rasinmäki, J., Kalliovirta, J. & Mäkinen, A. 2009. SIMO: An adaptable simulation framework for multiscale forest resource data. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 66: 76–84.
Sironen, S., Kangas, A., Maltamo, M. & Kalliovirta, J., 2008. Localization of growth estimates using non-parametric imputation methods. Forest Ecology and Management 256: 674–684. DOI:10.1016/j.foreco.2008.05.013
Mäkinen, A., Kangas, A., Kalliovirta, J., Rasinmäki, J., & Välimäki, E. 2008. Comparison of treewise and standwise forest simulators by means of quantile regression. Forest Ecology and Management 255: 2709-2717.
Holopainen, M., Mäkinen, A., Vastaranta, M., Rasinmäki, J., Hyyppä, J., Hyyppä, H. & Rönnholm, P. 2008. Utilization of tree species stratum data in forest planning simulations. In Hill, R., Rossette, J. and Suárez, J. 2008. Silvilaser 2008 proceedings:458-466.
"In the pipeline"
Mäkinen, A., Kangas, A. & Mehtätalo, L. Correlations, distributions and trends of forest inventory errors and their effects on forest planning. Submitted manuscript.
Holopainen, M., Mäkinen, A., Rasinmäki, J., Hyytiäinen, K., Bayazidi, S. & Pietilä, I. 2009. Comparison of various sources of uncertainty in stand-level net present value estimates. Submitted manuscript.
Kotamaa, E., Tokola, T., Maltamo, M., Packalén, P., Kurttila, M. & Mäkinen, A. Integration of ALS based bioenergy inventory data and optimal bucking for stand level decision making. Submitted manuscript.