Why use drones in Forestry

Drones, equipped with advanced sensors like LiDAR and multispectral cameras, offer unparalleled precision and detail in forest mapping, tree inventory, and conservation monitoring.

While satellites have traditionally been used for monitoring, they often fall short in terms of image quality and detail. Drones fill this gap with high-resolution, real-time imagery, even in challenging climates. Our drone, high-resolution cameras, and LiDAR technology ensure focused coverage, yielding faster and more high quality data.

Drone based LiDAR systems reveal the vertical complexity of forest canopies, offering insights into tree health and forest density that were previously unattainable.

Dive into the future of forestry with UAV LiDAR solutions. Advanced technology and software enables you to calculate individual tree heights, map forest coverage, and assess vegetation density with unparalleled accuracy. Our drones penetrate dense canopies, producing detailed Digital Terrain Models (DTMs) that bring the forest to your fingertips.

Beyond Satellites

Mapping with LiDAR

3D Forest Structure Analysis

How are drones used in forestry? 

Forest modeling – 3D recreations of forests help management and research teams learn more about how forests are structured through the creation of useful geospatial data like digital terrain models.

Inventory counting – Remote sensing allows research and management teams to quickly survey large areas and automate the generation of tree parameters such as inventory counts, GPS locations of tree positions, canopy heights and much more.

Disturbance forecasting – Prevalent forest disturbances such as fires, flooding, windstorms, droughts, overharvesting, pollution, fragmentation and biological invasions by insects and pathogens threaten the ecosystem. To mitigate disturbances and stress requires understanding where it occurs and what influences it may have at several spatial and temporal scales.

Monitoring growth and health – Aerial imagery and maps collected over time serve as a chronological record of the forest and aid in detecting new trees, monitoring growth and determining health assessments of healthy, stressed and degraded targets.

Land management – Aerial data is extremely useful to organizations working with government officials to improve inventory admittance, access and protection.

What benefits are there for forest practitioners and researchers?

Time savings – Fixed-wing drones enable land surveyors to capture data faster and more efficiently than terrestrial equipment alone.

Research-grade imagery – Multiple RGB and multispectral image acquisitions at 60-cm spatial resolution allow for detailed analysis and segmentation of individual trees using pre-determined parameters.

Environmental sustainability – Drones, and the aerial data they collect, are key tools to ensure sustainable, responsible forest management.

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