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KATAM ™ Forest Pro is launched today!

It is with great pleasure and pride that we today are launching the KATAM ™ Forest Pro on Google Play and on our website. KATAM ™ Forest Pro is a game changer  on the forest market and challenges the old and manual measuring methods that are used today – welcome to the future ! The app enables fast and smooth measurement of extensive test surfaces, which are also flexible in shape and size. For measured Read More…

By Stephan Pakh, ago

Katam awarded at Elmia

Winner of SkogsElmia Innovation Award 2019 Katam Technologies AB – Katam Forest Motivation from the jury: An app for the mobile phone to measure forest. Measurements performed are objective and traceable. As a supplement to KATAM Forest there is KATAM Treetop detection which allows all trees to be detected with position and height based on a drone photo. By correlating this data with ground measurements with KATAM Forest, all trees in a stock or on Read More…

By Krister, ago

Katam in Land Skogsbruk

New measurement technology makes everyday life easier for forest owners An example is a forestry family that the magazine Land Skogsbruk writes about in its latest issue (20190529).Katam Forest provides fast and accurate data that the forest owner easily transfers to his forest plan. Thereby you always have an updated and current forest plan. Read more..

By Stephan Pakh, ago

Katam nominated to SkogsElmia Innovation Award 2019

SkogsElmia Innovation Award is an award whose aim is to lift new and innovative technology in forestry. The products that receive the award are considered to be so interesting that they contribute to the development of forestry. Which grants that are awarded will be revealed on Thursday, June 6, in the Event Tent at SkogsElmia. For gold medals, the product is a novelty and the technology is basically new. For silver, it should stand out Read More…

By Anton Holmström, ago

KATAM™ Forest Mini launched today

KATAM™ Forest Mini launched today! It’s with great happiness and pride we today launch KATAM™ Forest Mini on Google Play for the Swedish market. The app is a free version of KATAM™ Forest that provides users with reliable forestry measurements in their smartphones. We started developing the technology in 2016. Several partners and organizations have had the opportunity to test the technology and buy licenses early on. With many requests for evaluating the app, in Read More…

By Anton Holmström, ago
KATAM™ Forest Mini

Katam signs contract with FMV, the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration

Katam signs contract with FMV, the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration FMV (The Swedish Defense Material Administration), a governmental agency acting under the Ministry of Defense, contacted Katam with a request to run a pilot study on how our technology can be used in military use.  FM (Swedish Armed Forces) and FMV are building up a Military Innovation Program that will capture civil engineering development and further develop it for military technical applications. Among other things, Read More…

By Anton Holmström, ago

Katam in Rapidus

Sony Mobile veterans launching AI app… … and initiate feasibility studies with Försvarets Materielverk. Katam is the company that now launches a mobile application for AI-based forest analysis. At the same time, the company opens a round of capital to build up a sales organization and is working on scaling up the technology. www.rapidus.se www.fmv.se

By Krister, ago

Krister Tham

CEO

With his background as a Private Forest Owner and R&D Project Manager at Sony Mobile Communications, Krister decided to establish KATAM in 2015 and use his experience from the mobile industry and solve the problems he worked with on a daily basis

Linus

CTO

After traveling the world, Linus was contacted by Krister in 2016, and joined KATAM soon thereafter, adding his multi-faceted software development experience to the mix.

Anton Holmström

International Coordinator

In early 2018, Anton found KATAM, and it was a perfect match. Soon thereafter, he took a break from his job shaping the future of Swedish Forest Management at the Swedish Forest Agency to help bring KATAM to an international audience

Hans Thunander

Business Development

As Anton's mentor for many years, it did not take long for Hans to discover KATAM after Anton joined. Leaving his retirement behind, Hans decided to head back into the forest industry from which he had a life-long experience - to start the next forest industry revolution.