This large initiative is based on the needs of the entire forest sector as identified during the 2023 Northern Hardwood Conference (NHC) held in August 2023. The conference was an opportunity for the NHRI team to confirm the usefulness of its current work, and more importantly, to adjust knowledge production and mobilization activities going forward. The focus is on developing geospatial tools that rely less on LiDAR technology as it is expensive and gets aged and obsolete very rapidly. The target spatial resolution for the tools is 20m X 20m. The goal of the project is to develop, improve, and implement a suite of technological tools that will empower and enable forest managers and practitioners to conduct the best climate-smart silviculture to sustain northern mixed and hardwood stands in eastern Canada and elsewhere. The specific objectives of this initiative are to: 1. Develop and implement tools to characterize tree health and product content. 2. Improve on the NHRI’s existing SPS so that it is climate smart and operational. 3. Automate decision making to reduce field work to diagnose stands. 4. Effectively mobilize this content through the development of training packages and delivery of workshops. The project aims to address the challenges facing the forest sector by leveraging technology to improve silviculture and the digitalization of the value chain and address the expanding challenges facing this forest type, including serious threats such as invasive species, inadequate tree regeneration and shifts in composition, degraded timber quality, herbivory, climate change, nitrogen deposition, and forest fragmentation.